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always from the coronet, and carefully applied so as to 

 exert an even and uniform pressure. (4) The bandages 

 should be of clean, unused linen. 



Once the bandages are adjusted, the hobbles may be 

 removed, and the tourniquet loosened. Directly the tourni- 

 quet is removed there is a steady oozing of blood through 

 the bandages, no matter how many we have put on. This 

 should occasion no alarm, as experience has taught that the 

 careful attention to antiseptic measures observed through- 

 out the operation has the effect of maintaining the lower- 

 most dressings, those next to the wound, in a state of 

 asepsis. The bandaged foot should now be wrapped in 

 a piece of thick clean cloth or placed in a boot. 



If our antiseptic precautions have been thorough, the 

 dressings and bandages so adjusted may be allowed to 

 remain without disturbance for from eight to fourteen days. 

 In this, however, the veterinary surgeon must be largely 

 guided by the symptoms of his patient. If, at the end of 

 the first three or four days, the animal maintains a vigor- 

 ous appetite, if he commences to place a little weight on 

 the foot, and if the thermometer gives no indication of a 

 rise beyond the one or two degrees of ordinary surgical 

 fever, then the surgeon may know that things are proceed- 

 ing satisfactorily. Pawing movements with the foot, in- 

 ability to place weight upon it, loss of appetite, an increase 

 in the number of respirations, and a serious rise of tem- 

 perature, denote the opposite state of affairs. The wound 

 is in all probability suppurating. The bandages and dress- 

 ings should therefore be removed, and the wound either 

 redressed and bandaged, or treated as an ordinary open 

 wound. 



Ordinarily, however, if the operation has been properly 

 performed, healing takes place by first intention, and the 

 wound when the bandages are removed at the end of the 

 first or second week appears clean and dry. 



Having assured ourselves that such is the case, we dress 

 the foot in exactly the same manner as before, save that 

 so many bandages are not put on. A similar dressing is 



