means of handling, even including 

 surgical interference, had failed to 

 effect the desired result. In not a few 

 of such conditions, iodine applications, 

 in some form, are prescribed as a sort 

 of ''last resort" treatment, even against 

 the hopes of either client or practi- 

 tioner, for the accomplishment of any- 

 thing in the way of benefit. 



Almost any practitioner of veterinary 

 medicine, with whom you may care to 

 discuss the matter, can point to case 

 after case, in his own practice, in which 

 a spavin, or a ring-bone, that had been 

 cauterized or otherwise operated upon 

 with failure, had yielded to a course of 

 topical iodine applications. In some 

 instances, a cure of this sort causes a 

 practitioner to lose faith in operative 

 measures for the correction of the con- 

 ditions in question. Usually, however, 

 it impresses upon him, with added 

 force, the thought that he has not fully 

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