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Notwithstanding these complications, I continued the treat- 
ment by first of all cutting off the stump referred to above 10 
cm., then diligently rinsing out the wound with 1 per cent. sub- 
limate water and. bandaging up as above described. 
By renewing bandage on the Ist and 4th of June the 
course of the wound was a purely aseptic one, only the sur- 
face of the wound did not granulate satisfactorily as the upper 
tendon stump proliferated to a full hen’s egg size granuloma, 
which did not come in contact with the lower stump. I de- 
cided on the gth of June to cut off this granuloma at its base 
with the scissors, so that about 5 cm. of the ospedis flexor ten- 
don was lost. 
When I again visited the patient on the 16th of June, I 
found an altogether aseptic granulating wound of about the 
size of a hand, which on the edge already showed a new forma- 
tion of epithelial covering. Synovia did not flow out of either 
of the flexor sheaths that were open. It was cleaned with a 
I per cent. solution of sublimate and tied up again so that on 
the 23d of June I found a considerable smaller wound surface, 
which I endeavored to cure by means of a scar under a dry 
scab, as there was sufficient granulation formed. To gain this 
object I had the wound powdered daily with iodoform sugar 
(5 per cent.) until a dry scab formed. 
On the 8th of July the patient walked around in the stall, 
though the pastern joint was somewhat weak as yet, the horse 
did not show any pain, and four weeks later could resume its 
service as coach horse again. On the wound there was an en- 
tirely dry scab, and it was hardly the size of the palm of 
the hand. 
NAILPRICK. 
In course of time I have had under my treatment the most 
various forms of Nailpricks (with or without injury to the 
flexor tendon, navicular bone, frog cushion, and os pedis), and 
I adopted the following rule as to treatment: 
Cutting down, occasionally removing all of the horn in the 
vicinity of the punctured wound, plugging of the puncture- 
