78 Fly Blow, Maggots 



stores cheaper than it can be made. If the stitches tear out, make a 

 new one close by. An efficient dusting powder may be made as follows. 

 Gallic 20 



Lime Sulphate, 3 parts 



Lead Acetate, 3 parts 



Carbolic Acid, 3 parts 



Starch, 90 parts. 

 A good healing solution is as follows: 



Balsm Firrh, 2 ounces (4 tablespoonsful) 



Alcohol, 8 ounces (16 tablespoonsful) 



Tincture assafoetida, 2 ounces (4 tablespoonfuls) 

 Apply 2 times daily. 



White lotion is often used for open flesh wounds. It is made by 

 combining 



Lead Acetate, 1 ounce (2 tablespoonsful) 

 Zinc Sulphate, 6 drams (6 teaspoonsful) 

 Water, 1 pint 

 Apply 2 times daily. 

 For a fresh open wound nothing is better than to paint it with 

 tincture of iodine. 



If a wound as barb wire cut stops healing and proud flesh begins to 

 develop, paint it with silver nitrate solution daily until the growth 

 of proud flesh is checked. See "Proud Flesh." 



FLY BLOW 



''Maggots'' 



The blow fly is a great enemy of open wounds during warm 

 summer months. The eggs are laid in the wound by the blow fly 

 and develop a maggot or larvae in a few days which lives on the tissue 

 of the animal. If attention is not given such cases they may eat to the 

 vital organ as the brain or intestines and death follow. 



TREATMENT 



In most wounds the maggot can be removed by the hand or with a 

 wooden splinter, however, where there is any doubt about the thorough- 

 ness of the job, pure gasoline can be poured in the cavity wthout inju}ry 

 to the wound. Maggots will die in a very few seconds if kept in gaso- 



