OUTS OK WOUNDS. 979 



For deep, incised wounds, from pitch-fork, etc., the following 

 is claimed to be excellent: 



1 pound saltpetre, 

 1 gallon water, 

 1 quart best whisky. 



Inject into the wound with a syringe three times a day until a cure is 

 effected. 



It prevents inflammation or a tendency to sloughing or morti- 

 fication. A gun-shot wound, a foot deep, in the thigh of a horse 

 (the ball could not be found, remaining in the leg) was perfectly 

 cured in two weeks by this treatment. 



In any case of sinuses being formed, they must be opened up 

 to the bottom, and made a simple wound, when it is to be treated 

 as for a wound. Or, the pipes destroyed by a caustic introduced 

 and repeated until the unhealthy part is sloughed out to the bot- 

 tom. A very simple and effective caustic is that made of blue 

 vitriol, either in strong solution, when it could be injected, or a lit- 

 tle powdered fine in the form of a tent, which is simply a little 

 rolled up in a strip of thin paper, twisted at the ends, and pushed 

 to the bottom with a probe. Several parcels of this kind, one after 

 another, can be pushed in until the sinuses are filled. In four or 

 five days a core will be formed, which will usually destroy the 

 sinuses to the bottom ; if any remain, it can be ascertained, and 

 the dressing repeated upon that part, until it is all made a clean 

 wound, when it can be treated as before described with a simple 

 digestive preparation. 



If there is an injury to the bone, ligament, or tendon, and not 

 treated properly, a small sinus is formed, from which matter will 

 ooze. In such a case, a probe must be introduced, and its extent 

 ascertained; if the sinus extends to the bone, which can be known 

 by the probe striking it, a free opening should be made to the 

 bottom, if the situation will admit, the diseased surface scraped 

 off, when it can be treated as before explained, by the use of 

 Friar's balsam, etc. If all dead matter is not removed, sinuses 

 are again liable to form after the wound is healed, when the whole 

 treatment must be repeated. 



Punctured wounds of the tendons, and the capsular ligaments 

 of the joints, which often happen in the hind or fore legs, should 

 be first touched with lunar caustic by making the stick pointed, 



