FAVORITE WOUND TREATMENTS 



Applications for Successful Wound Treatment 



If a wound is to be stitched, it is washed out with 

 boiled water to which has been added one dram mercuric 

 chlorid and one-half ounce hydrochloric acid to the pint. 

 Then it is stitched and covered with plain sterile gauze, 

 kept moist with five-per-cent solution of carbolic acid in 

 boiled water. The wound is dusted daily with a mix- 

 ture of boric acid and iodoform. On wounds not closed 

 by sutures I use the following: 



Powdered aloes, one ounce; denatured alcohol, four 

 ounces, and linseed oil as much as will suffice to make 

 one pint. 



These treatments or applications are made daily. As 

 far as results are concerned, I believe I get primary 

 union as often as any of the general practitioners in 

 the rural districts, and more often than most of them. 



In open wounds the aloes-alcohol-and-linseed-oil mix- 

 ture is a sure winner. I have found poor animals bound 

 with all kinds of mechanical devices (most of them 

 cruel and all of them unnecessary), to keep from gnaw- 

 ing and biting their wounds. I have never seen a wound 

 or sore — surgical, accidental, or constitutional — that the 

 animal would lick, gnaw, or bite after the above dressing 

 had been 'used twice in twenty- four hours. 



P. F. Ash. 



Cenierville, Iowa. 



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