CUTTING — DAMP FOOD 



and to search for and extract any foreign substance that 

 may be in the wound. The latter object can, excepting in 

 severe cases, in which event professional assistance should 

 be at once procured, be usually attained by dabbing the 

 place with wet lint — a pocket-handkerchief will do in an 

 emergency — or by letting water trickle down over the wound 

 from above. If the cut is not a deep one all that may be 

 necessary is to apply a mild antiseptic dressing, such as 

 carbolic acid one part in forty parts of water, or carbolic 

 acid in twenty-five parts of olive oil. Then three or four 

 thicknesses of gauze may be laid over the cut, and on this 

 again a layer of cotton wool, sterilised if it is procurable, all 

 being kept in position by a bandage which can be made 

 out of stockings cut lengthways and fastened together by 

 safety-pins, if proper bandages are not at hand. In the 

 case of deep cuts it may be necessary to apply stitches. 

 Punctured cuts may have to be syringed out to cleanse 

 them, as sometimes their recesses cannot be reached by 

 other means, the best fluid to inject being carbolic acid one 

 part and water twenty to thirty parts. Most cuts evince 

 a disposition to fester before they heal, and if this is the 

 case the bandages should be removed and means taken, 

 by lancing if necessary, to enable the pus to escape. (See 

 Bleeding, Broken Knees y Cuts, Stitching Wounds^ 



Cutting. — See Brushing, Speedy Cut. 



D 



Daisy Cutting. — The term applied to the action of a 

 horse which does not lift his fore-feet more than a few inches 

 from the ground. (See Free Action, Round Action.) 



Dale Pony. — (See Fell Pony.) 



Damp Food. — Many owners advocate the principle of 

 always giving their horses their allowance of grain, chaff, and 



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