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After Treatment, — Tlie after treatment is simple enough. 

 The third day after the operation, lightly scrape the part fired 

 and blistered -with the back edge of an old table knife ; then 

 lightly wash the sore with warm water, soap, and a soft sponge. 

 The washing to be repeated every third or fourth day for four 

 or five times in succession, while every day, dressings of lard 

 or neats-foot oil may be applied to soften the skin, and aid the 

 escape of any purulent discharge which may be present. 



It is seldom that the full benefit derived from the actual 

 cautery is observed at once. Its operation is slow. The 

 animal operated upon should always rest, or run at grass, for 

 at least three months afterwards. 



Setons and Eowels. — Setons and rowels are well known 

 remedies. Like a blister, or the application of the actual 

 cautery, they excite the living parts to whicli they may be 

 applied, into active inflammation. 



Both setons and rowels, however, are limited in their action, 

 being in all cases confined in their eflects to the tissues they 

 may be placed in. 



Eowels are seldom or ever resorted to now-a-days by 

 veterinary surgeons. Ignorant people have faith in their 

 efficacy as of old. 



Setons, although of a precisely similar nature in their 

 eflects, yet, from their greater readiness of application, and the 

 greater extent of surface over which they can be made to act, 

 to some extent still retain a place in veterinary practice. 



Setons are useful occasionally in cases of Quitter ; also to 

 apply along the course of the trachea in certain forms of 

 Chronic Cough ; also to apply along the back on each side of 

 the spine, in cases of irritation of the spine ; and also in Poll 

 Evil, and other forms of deep seated abscess. " In inflammations 



