The Facial artery crosses the edge of the lower jaw in a slight hollow two fingers' bredth in front of the angle, and sends branches to the chin, lips, cheek, and outside of the nose. Haemorrhage from wounds of the face below the level of the eye is to be arrested by:- Direct pressure on the wound from the outside of the cheek against the jaw bone. Grasping the wound of the lips or cheek by the finger inside and the thumb outside the mouth or viceversa.