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primary adhesion i.s next to impossible, the same accurate apposition 

 of the lips by stitching is not so essential. If portions of skin or other 

 tissue are so detached or crushed that they can not possibly live, they 

 may be cut off, but if there is any doubt on this matter the injured 

 portion should be left and ever}'- attempt should be made to preserve 

 it. Such portions of the wound as are free from such fatally injured 

 parts may be disinfected by the carbolic lotion referred to above, and 

 stitched up like a clean wound. The severely'- injured parts may be 

 left open to discharge, and the whole may be dressed daily with the 

 carbolized oil or with a solution of 1 part of mercuric chloride in 

 1,000 of water. 



Granulating wounds may be irrigated with the mercuric chloride 

 solution, and if the granulations become inflamed (soft, flabby, exu- 

 berant, rising above the edges of the wound), thej'^ may be touched 

 lightly with a stick of lunar caustic, so as to leave them covered with a 

 white film. 



In all wounds that fail to heal by primarj' union an elaborate anti- 

 septic treatment is desirable, but the difficult}^ of applying this suc- 

 cessfully to the horse in an ordinary stable would seem to forbid a 

 lengthy description in a book of this kind. 



