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borated, or carbolized cotton, of generous size, be bound, several turns of the 
bandage being made. This dressing should then be wet, and thereafter kept 
continually moist with a solution of corrosive sublimate, 1 to 2000. 
Various kinds of antiseptic gauze are on the market, and they owe their 
peculiar property to the carbolic acid, iodoform, or sublimate incorporated in 
them. One of these should be employed if the dressing is to be dry. The 
wound having been sprinkled with iodoform, as in the first instance, a large, 
thick pad made of the antiseptic gauze chosen should be laid over it, and bound 
in place by strips of the same gauze, which should always be used generously. 
Over all a cotton or linen bandage should be applied. 
The injured leg should then be splinted if possible, to keep the joint at rest, 
and the dressing be allowed to remain undisturbed for at least five or six days, 
unless there has been much discharge and it has saturated the bandage; in 
which event all coverings should be removed, the wound washed with 1 to 1000 
solution of the sublimate, sprinkled with iodoform, and clean gauze applied. 
Every joint that has been wounded should be kept as immovable as possible 
for two or three weeks after entire repair has seemed to have taken place; and 
even then only gentle use be allowed at first. Any stiffness of the joint that per- 
sists may, after a time, be treated by massage and stimulating liniments, as cam- 
phor or soap-liniment. 
In the foregoing, iodoform has been frequently recommended as a dressing 
for wounds, and lest harm result from its use it is best that the fact be given due 
prominence that this powder now and then causes much irritation, and it is even 
capable of poisoning; therefore it must always be employed cautiously, never 
in any case more than one-sixth of a teaspoonful being applied in a single dress- 
ing, even if the patient be one of the largest breeds; while if it irritates, its 
use is wholly contra-indicated. Where the wounds are extensive and a greater 
quantity of iodoform or other like-acting agent would seem required, to one 
part of iodoform should be added five parts of boric acid, which is practically 
non-toxic, and this combination be used in the dressing. A teaspoonful of the 
same would be within the safety lines; and the wound must be indeed large 
that required a more generous quantity of dusting-powder. However, if more 
was actually needed, dry powdered sulphur might be used. It is claimed by 
some that this very simple remedy, powdered sulphur, is even a more powerful 
antiseptic than iodoform ; and certainly large quantities could be safely applied 
to raw surfaces. 
Had much sulphur been left in a wound for several days, after washing it 
‘out the wound should be carefully bathed with a solution of corrosive sublimate, 
1 to 2000. 
When mixed with glycerin, powdered sulphur is even more active as a germ- 
destroyer than while dry; hence a paste so composed may prove specially effi- 
cacious in suppurating and foul-smelling wounds or ulcers. 
