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flesh when using carbolized oil, and it may be necessary 

 to touch the parts with nitrate of silver or lunar caustic 

 to consolidate the parts. This is a good omen ; but 

 should this treatment not have the effect of setting up a 

 healthy condition, then it will be necessary to call in 

 the aid ot a practical veterinary surgeon, for in all 

 probability the bones of the neck are fractured, and as 

 these can only be successfully treated by a practical 

 man it is useless giving my readers the mode adopted. 

 The cord of the seton should be dressed every morning 

 with carbolized oil or corrosive sublimate half a 

 drachm, spirit of wine two ounces, but in most cases 

 carbolized oil is best. Setons are largely employed in 

 the management of domesticated animals in disease 

 and even in health. They consist of pieces of tape or 

 cord, which are carried for some distance under the 

 skin and allowed to remain in a considerable time to 

 keep the passage open for the draining away of some 

 morbid product, or to establish some curative or 

 prophylactic process by the local irritation which they 

 produce. The word seton is no doubt obtained from 

 the Latin seta, coarse hair or bristles, which were the 

 original agents for this purpose; at the present time 

 the material in common use is coarse tape varying 

 according to the requirements of the case or the whim 

 of the operator. It is introduced by means of an in- 

 strument called the seton needle, and is formed of 

 a Hat piece of steel varying from four to eight inches 

 in length. The one end has a square aperture or eye, 

 while the other end is flattened out at the edges which 

 join each other at an acute angle. The point is often 



