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and oozing generally over the whole of the outer surface, 

 is rarely profuse enough to interfere with the operation, 

 and is easily controlled by cold water douches and the 

 application of the artery forceps to one or more of the 

 larger vessels. The operation completed, the larger bleed- 

 ing-points should be secured by exerting torsion with the 

 artery forceps, and the surface oozing stayed by frequent 

 dashing with cold water. 



When the hemorrhage has sufficiently ceased, an 

 ordinary flat firing-iron should be passed over the whole 

 of the cut surface, and an effectual eschar formed. 



Following this, and he fore removing the tourniquet, the 

 wound should be filled with pledgets of carbolized tow, and 

 the whole tightly secured by a stout and broad linen 

 bandage of not less than 6 yards in length. 



Reported Case. — ' The patient, a middle-aged cart mare, 

 had a pair of fore-feet the like of which I never saw. As 

 the result of long-standing and imperfectly-treated quittor 

 all over the seat of side-bone on the outer side of each fore- 

 foot, beginning pretty far forward, and extending to the 

 heel on the inner side, filling up the hollow and reaching 

 nearly to the fetlock, was a big, bulging, hard, calloused 

 enlargement or tumour standing out 3 or 4 inches all 

 round, covered with thick horny skin and stubby hair, and 

 having on its surface the small openings of several sinuses 

 leading deeply down to the ossified and diseased cartilage 

 underneath. And yet with all this diseased undergrowth 

 the mare, strangely enough, walked and trotted sound. I 

 was told that this mare had been troubled with suppurating 

 corns and quittor, that many unsuccessful attempts had 

 been made at cure, but that, getting worse instead of better, 

 these tumours had formed. 



' After casting and anaesthetizing, a strong rubber tourni- 

 quet was placed above the knee and the operation com- 

 menced. With a surgeon's amputating knife all the big 

 fibrous mass which I could safely remove was cut and 

 sliced off, and the coronet and pastern reduced as nearly as 

 possible to its natural dimensions. The diseased cartilage, 



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