14 ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 
occlusive bandage, for instance, is not always strictly oc- 
clusive in human surgery, for example, in operations around 
the natural body openings, and yet asepsis results on account 
of the procedure being modified. Therefore, if we want to prac- 
tice asepsis in treatment of wounds, we must transform the 
known healing methods of human medicine in such a manner 
as to carry out LISTER’S idea, considering at the same time 
the usual circumstances of our branch. Where the present 
methods are insufficient we are obliged to find new ways to 
reach this aim. 
Upon looking over the different literature we find that when 
antisepsis in surgery was introduced, veterinary authors were 
immediately ready to make use of it, but if the procedures and 
details of the cases thus treated are minutely looked into we 
find that there is frequently nothing left of the antiseptic 
treatment but the application of an antiseptic. That the simple 
application of an antiseptic remedy cannot be called antisepsis 
is plain to everybody that goes deeper into the subject. Con- 
siderable time elapsed before PUETZ, BAYER, KORN- 
HOEUSER, SIEDAMGROTZKY and others demonstrated 
cases which left no doubt as to the applicability of antisepsis 
by an occlusive bandage. 
PUETZ, MUELLER, HOFFMAN, as well as CADIOT 
and ROY, who wrote special essays in regard to antiseptic 
treatment of wounds and their applications in veterinary sur- 
gery, cannot depart from the occlusive bandage, so that accord- 
ing to this view many wounds of the trunk which do not permit 
bandaging, apparently cannot be treated antiseptically. The 
above authors do not mention anything in regard to the anti- 
septic treatment of these, so that this vast category of wounds 
is left to the old mode of treatment. 
