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tiou. It is necessary, while putting on the bandage, to keep the nose ex- 

 tended, in order to adapt the bandage more perfectly to the part, and 

 apply it more closely. I removed the bandage night and morning, and 

 had the parts well fomented and dressed with the tincture ; and in the 

 course of four weeks the mare was well, and returned to her work. 



" The second case came under my observation about a year after the 

 foregoing. It was a grey cart-horse, the property of Mr. M'Nab, of Cupar, 

 in Fife. This was also an old and inveterate case, and had been under the 

 treatment of some person in the neighbourhood for a considerable time. 1 

 proceeded with this in the same manner as the former case, and left it 

 under the care of a very respectable country practitioner, with proper 

 directions, who, in the course of a very few weeks, sent me the gratifying 

 intelligence of the perfect recovery of my patient." 



The simplest and most effectual method of applying 

 pressure to the withers I have found to be the following: 



Take a common neck-strap, and sow thereto a piece of 

 strong linen cloth. This last must be sufficiently large to 

 cover the wound, and at its free edge must be secured 

 and fastened to a surcingle. By its double attachment the 

 cloth will be maintained in its proper situation, and may be 

 so tightened at pleasure, as to press with considerable force 

 a pledget of tow put between the cloth and wound. It may 

 be as well to state the sore surface should be oiled and 

 covered with soft lint before any pressure is applied. 



Hopeless Cases. — Now and then it happens disease has 

 made such ravages and the cure is so remote that the animal 

 is not considered worth the expense of treatment, and there- 

 fore it is doomed to destruction. In these cases we find the 

 spinous processes of the vertebrae, perhaps the cartilages, and 

 even the bone of the scapula, all carious, with unhealthy dis- 

 charge of a disgusting character. And such is the esta- 

 blished disposition in some of these old sores, that, do all we 

 may, it is not in our power to destroy the morbid action. 

 Nevertheless, if a case of this kind be undertaken, the first 

 step is, to remove the diseased hard parts. The carious 

 bone and cartilage must be taken away at all risk of subse- 

 (juont deformity, and then, probably, the animal in time 

 may recover. 



