I hoped now, however, to recall as much of my knowledge as would be sufficient to cure my poor wife.

I examined her foot first, which I found to be violently sprained.

She begged me then to look at her leg, and what was my distress when I saw it was fractured above the ancle; however, the fracture appeared simple, without splinters, and easy to cure.

I sent Fritz without delay to procure me two pieces of the bark of a tree, between which I placed the leg, after having, with the assistance of my son, stretched it till the two pieces of broken bone united; I then bound it with bandages of linen, and tied the pieces of bark round the leg, so that it might not be moved.

I bound the sprained foot very tightly, till I could procure the balsam which I expected to find in the chest.