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Excerpt from Encyclopædia Americana, Vol. 8: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; On the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversation-Lexicon Lint, in surgery, is the scrapings of fine linen, used by surgeons in dressing wounds. 'it is made into various forms, which have different names, according to the difference of the figures. Lint, made up in an oval or orbicular form, is called a' pledgit; if in a cylindrical form, or in shape of a date or olive stone, it is called a dossil. These different forms of lint are required for many purposes; as, 1.'to stop blood in fresh wounds, by filling them up before the application of a bandage; though, if scraped 'iint be not at hand, a piece of fine linen may be torn into small rags, and applied in the same manner: in very large hemorrhages, the lint or rags should be first dipped in some styptic liquor, as alcohol, or oil of turpentine, or sprinkled with some styptic powder: 2. To agglutinate or heal wounds; to which end lint is very serviceable, if spread with some digestive ointment, balsam, or vulnerary liquor 3. In drying up wounds and ulcers, and forwarding the formation of a cicatrix: 4. In keeping the lips of wounds at a proper distance, that they may not hastily unite before the bottom is well digested and healed: 5. They are highly neces sary to preserve wounds from the injuries of the air. - Surgeons Of former ages used compresses of sponge, wool, feathers, or cotton, linen being less plentiful than in later times; but lint is far preferable to all these, and is, at present, universally used. Lintz, capital of Upper Austria, on the Danube, at the influx of the Traun, is well built, with a bridge 400 paces long, and has, exclusive of the garrison, a popu lation of inhabitants; houses, 1000. Here is the largest woollen manufactory. In Austria, in which fine carpets are made. Much gunpowder is also manufactured here. In 1784, Lintz was made a bishop's see. In 1674, the lyceum was founded by Leopold, and, in 1824, institutions for the deaf and dumb, and one for the -blind, were erected. The Northern Institute is a college for the Catholics Of the north of Germany. Lon. 14° 16/ 45 E.; lat. 48° 18' 54 N. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
