6 INTRODUCTION. 
clinicians, with the exception of a few country practitioners, 
have adopted antisepsis. No practical veterinarian will hesi- 
tate to adopt it, however, when it assumes a form capable of 
adopting itself to the very different conditions of our animals. 
as compared to the human. 
The modern antiseptic treatment of wounds as well as the 
remarkable successful results in surgery, which have attracted 
even the attention of the layman, is due to the above men- 
tioned maxim. 
It must here be acknowledged that the antiseptic methods 
in vogue in human surgery (for example, bandaging) cannot 
readily be adopted by the veterinarian, but this work should be 
a guide, by which, with the aid of antiseptics, we can learn 
to improve our methods of treating the wounds of animals 
aseptically. 
