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Preventive for Lockjaw.

--When any one runs a nail or sharp iron into any part of the body, take a common smoke pipe, light it well after filling with tobacco, then place a cloth or silk handkerchief over the bowl, and blow the smoke through the stem into the wound. Two or three pipesful will be sufficient to set the wound discharging.

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