FIRING IN SUPERFICIAL POINTS. 



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series, thus alternating the appHcation of the points in a third and 

 fourth series, until the whole surface is covered. This makes a 

 regular drawing, and leaves but httle blemish afterward. 



The rules j)ertaining to the appHcation of firing in straight 

 lines are the same as in the cauterization in superficial points, and 

 they apply to this also, but we beheve this is to be better indicated 

 in the firing of small surfaces, for bony deposits, ringbones, 

 spHnts, spavins and side-bones, or generally in the treatment of 

 circumscribed diseases. 



Fig. 205.— Firing in Dots and Points. 



Firing in points is always more effectual than that in straight 

 lines, and being exempt from the danger of skin sloughs, it always 

 leaves fewer blemishes. Moreover, in a majority of cases, it can 

 be appHed without casting the patient. These are points which 

 should count largely in its favor. The principal objection to be 

 urged against it is the greater length of time requu-ed to reahze 

 the full measure of its effects. 



Mr. Prange has invented a mode of cauterization, which is very 

 similar to that in superficial points, but differing from it in the 

 fact that instead of points, the ordinary flat iron is used. 

 It is cauterization in lines, but instead of being long and made 

 with one stroke of the cautery, they are divided into short lines 

 (see Fig. 203), also arranged in quintuple, like the dots of the 

 point firing. This method has not found favor with those who 

 have experimented with it. 



