yo VETERINARY LECTURES 



129. When the cut surface casts off a fine thick, yellowish-white, 

 creamy pus, or matter, and the wound assumes a nice strawberry 

 colour, it is a sign that healthy action has taken place, in the shape 

 of granulation. Excessive granulations, however, must be kept 

 in check by the application of some caustic lotion or powder 

 (par. 1060, Nos. V. and VI.). To keep down undue inflammatory 

 action nothing is better than cold water bandages or cloths kept 

 constantly wet by pouring cold water over them from time to time. 

 These should be continued until healthy matter is seen coming 

 from the wound (par. 33). 



130. After the edges of a clean-cut wound have been drawn 

 together with stitches — sutures — I have frequently seen good results 

 from covering the part with green (Stockholm) tar. This acts as 

 a good antiseptic, and keeps the air from the wound ; it also has 

 a tendency to keep the stitches from suppurating out, thus prevent- 

 ing the lips from gaping open. This is of most value in cases of 

 injury to the neck, ribs, hips, and thighs. When bandages can 

 be used, a pledget or small compress of tow or cotton-wool, saturated 

 with a mixture of oak varnish and iodoform, can be applied to the 

 wound before putting on the bandage (bar. 1060, No. VII.). 



131. Bruised and Contused Wounds may be considered as 

 one, and are those in which the parts are injured with or without 

 an abrasion of the skin — a good example being a black eye in the 

 human subject. In domestic animals these wounds are generally 

 caused by kicks, blows, prods from a cow's horn, slipping on ice, 

 etc. The bleeding takes place under the skin, the blood coagulating 

 and arresting the haemorrhage. Sometimes these injuries are very 

 extensive, and should not be interfered with by an amateur, nor 

 should they be cut into for eight or nine days, when a good opening 

 must be made and the clotted blood removed ; the wound may 

 then be dressed with the antiseptic mixture and tow (par. 128). 

 Frequently they suppurate and form matter ; or the watery portions 

 may become absorbed and the solids organized, and form a big 

 hard lump — a tumour. A good example is the breaking of the 

 1 belly-rind ' by one cow ' dumping ' another, or through the kick 



