This prevented the ankle's being cut as badly as it would have been, if the corks had been sharper.

Forester looked at the ankle, and found that nothing had been done for it.

It was inflamed and painful.

He got the woman to give him a basin of warm water, and then he bathed it very carefully, which relieved the sense of tension and pain.

Then he made an ointment of equal parts of tallow and oil, which he put upon the end of a bandage, and thus bound it up.