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see,) inflammation of the bone, or any accident that will 

 cause a simple abscess, will cause fistula. 



A blow that would produce a common abscess on some 

 portions of the body, will result in fistula in other por- 

 tions, as in the vicinity of a joint. 



Treatynent. — If the swelling is just forming, endeavor 

 to put it back by placing chopped ice in a bag over it for 

 a few days. By this means, many a swelling which 

 would terminate in a fistula, will be cured at once. This 

 not succeeding, have an opening made into its lowest 

 side, so as the bloody water, which it at this time con- 

 tains, will be discharged. Then syringe a half table 

 spoonful of the tincture of iodine into it once in the day 

 for a few days, to eat or destroy the membranous sack. 

 Then treat it as a common sore by keeping it clean, and 

 the opening from closing before it has healed from the 

 bottom. For this purpose, place a small piece of cotton 

 in the mouth of the opening, smeared with simple oint- 

 ment. (See Medicines and Prescriptions.) 



Fistula in the Foot. — This disease, by common con- 

 sent, is called quittor, a fistulous abscess in the foot. 

 (See Quittor.) 



Fistulous Withers. — By farmers called Thisolow, 

 or Fisolow. This is an aifection described in the pre- 

 ceding article with this difference in some cases, that it 

 extends through over the top of the bones of the withers 

 or shoulders to the other side, thus forming a very broad 

 pad, as it were, on the top of the shoulder, just where 

 the shoulder in health is the sharpest and narrowest. 



Treatment. — Chopped ice in bags laid over the swell- 

 ing, and, if necessary, open and take out the sack, or 

 destroy it by the injection of the tincture of iodine, and 



