The Treatment of the 

 Injured Hand * 



How to Cleanse it and How to Examine it 



By Ralph St. J. Perry, M. D., Santa Fe, Isle of Pines, Cuba 



(Editor's Note. — Minor injuries to the hands that are infected dur^ 

 ing their work and become serious are of such common occurrence 

 among veterinarians that no apology is required for presenting this 

 excellent article, a chapter from Dr. Perry's book on "The Injured 

 Hand," here even though it deals with no phase of veterinary surgery. 

 The principles here given apply alike to minor surgery of both man and 

 animals. Dr. L. A. Merillat, the most widely read surgeon among 

 veterinarians has pronounced this article the best "surgery" that has 

 tver appeared in a veterinary publication.} 



Probably every accidental wound is an infected 

 wound. Out of several hundred of such injuries 

 only two were found to be noninf ected when sub- 

 jected to bacteriologic tests. The infection usually 

 is coincident with the injury, and it is doubtful 

 whether any method of wound cleansing has yet 

 been devised which will surely and immediately 

 eliminate this primary infection. 



♦Reprinted from the American Journal of Veterinary Medioma, No- 

 vember, 1910. 



