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all. The foot should then be bandaged and encased in a 

 boot or sacking protective. The bandage should be removed 

 daily and the antiseptic pad changed. At each visit the 

 animal's condition must be carefully noted. So long as 

 constitutional disturbance is slight, the foot appears com- 

 fortable, is free from marked heat and tenderness, and paw- 

 ing movements are absent, and so long as the discharge on 

 the pad appears non-purulent, free from marked odour, and 

 small in quantity, then this dressing may be persisted in. 



This treatment of open joint, preventive as it is of 

 arthritis, is also indicated in the case of open navicular 

 bursa. In several instances we have practised this treat- 

 ment for the dressing of wounds implicating the bursas of 

 tendons and the capsules of joints. It is also spoken of 

 favourably by Air. C. H. Flynn in the American Veterinary 

 Review for June, 1888, whose treatment is as follows: 

 ' Place the patient in a clean, well-ventilated, and drained 

 stable. Have all the littler removed, and insist on the stall 

 being kept clean. Either place the animal in slings, or tie 

 the head so as to prevent lying down. Clip the hair and 

 cleanse the parts well. He prefers the corrosive sublimate 

 solution (1 in 1,000). Should the wound be of two or 

 more days' standing, inject the joint with the corrosive sub- 

 limate solution. Xow dry the parts with a clean towel and 

 sprinkle the wound with iodoform. Over this place a thick 

 layer of absorbent cotton-wool, filled with iodoform, band- 

 age securely, and keep the patient on a moderate diet, pre- 

 serving the utmost quietude possible. Should the bandage 

 remain in position and the animal free from pain, leave the 

 bandage and dressing in place from five days to a week. 

 Then change it, and should the discharge be little, do not 

 disturb it, but renew the iodoform and cotton dressing, leav- 

 ing it on for another week.' 



Other treatments for the same condition are practised, in 

 which the wound is dusted with powdered iodoform, with 

 potassium permanganate, or with corrosive sublimate, or 

 where the wound, instead of being dusted, has the corrosive 

 sublimate applied in the form of a plug. In each case the 



