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more than one stitch is required, but as perfect union never can 
be effected by adhesion, the attempi to bring the edges carefully 
together is a failure; and, provided that anything like an approach 
to this is effected, all is done by a few stitches at short distances 
which can be desired. A bandage may be put on afterwards, and 
kept on for three days, after which it must be changed daily, still 
keeping on the muzzle. When the red granulations rise above 
the level of the skin, called then “proud flesh,” a piece of blue- 
stone should be rubbed on them daily, or often enough to keep 
them down to the proper level. When below the level of the skin 
they never require caustic of any kind. 
In any cuts about the legs or feet, the parts may be protected by 
collodion painted on rapidly with a camel-hair brush, and allowed 
to dry ; but a very little friction removes it. Canada balsam, spread 
on white leather and warmed, will keep its place well enough to 
bear the rubs of a course in the greyhound, and is, I believe, the 
best application. A leathern boot may be made to fit the pointer’s 
or setter’s foot, or indeed that of any dog which requires protection 
during work. It should be made of two pieces of leather, one con- 
siderably larger than the other, and the large one set into the small 
with a puckered or full edge. This, when firmly tied or stitched 
round the ankle, just below the knee, will resist all the efforts of 
the dog to get it off, and may be worn without a muzzle for weeks, 
taking care to remove it occasionally in order to cleanse the wound. 
In this way I have obtained the healing of cuts in the ball of the 
foot in a week or two, without stopping exercise a single day, 
whereas without a boot the dog would have been lame, and it 
would take months to heal the wound without resting the dog. 
Fractures may occur in any of the bones of the dog, but, except- 
ing in the legs or ribs, little relief can be afforded by art. They 
are detected by the deformity which is seen in the part, an angle 
being presented in the interval between two joints, when occurring 
in the limb, and a crepitus or crackling being heard and felt on 
handling the part. When the ribs have been broken, the injury 
is easily detected by the depression which is felt, and the grating 
sound often produced in breathing. In this case a flannel bandage 
may be bound tightly round the chest, and the dog, after being 
bled, should be kept quiet and fed on low diet. A horse-girth 
passed twice or thrice round and buckled answers the purpose 
