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that is necessary being to wash the parts with warm water. 

 Ignorant quacks often apply salves and other greasy sub- 

 stances to fresh wounds, which, instead of healing them, 

 produce ulceration and sores ; and stimulants rather retard 

 the progress than facilitate the natural healing process. 



Where wounds are inflicted by a round substance, or an 

 unequal-sided, or triangular instrument, they are more diffi- 

 cult, and more tedious to heal. And if the wound is deep, 

 sewing or pinning the parts must not be had recourse to. 

 In such cases, deep-rooted suppuration is almost certain 

 to attend them ; and although the external surface may 

 be brought together and healed, ulceration will be lurking 

 beneath, and the matter there collected must sooner or later 

 find vent. Whenever it is suspected that ulceration is 

 going on below, it will be better to keep the surface open, 

 and in about a week probe the wound to the bottom, and 

 thus make a free opening for the escape of the accumulated 

 matter, which should be pressed out, and a warm poultice 

 applied to the part to draw out all that remains. As soon 

 as the inflammation completely subsides, granulation of the 

 sides of the wound will take place, and it will ultimately 

 heal up. 



In cases where valuable breeding cattle have received 

 deep and severe wounds, and the proprietor is anxious to 

 preserve the animals, then every means must be adopted 

 which are known in the veterinary art to eflect a cure. One 

 of the first things to be attended to is to keep down in- 

 flammation. This is most efiectually accomplished by 

 means of copious bleeding. In cases of the animal being 

 gored, or deeply wounded in the belly, by leaping over a 

 fence or other object, it often happens that the incision is 

 of such an extent as to permit the bowels to protrude. 

 The first thing to be done in such cases, is to see that the 



