86 ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 
IX. OPERATIONS WITH ANTISEPTIC PRECAU- 
TIONS. 
RESECTION OF BODY OF INFERIOR MAXILLA OF 
DOG ON ACCOUNT OF FRACTURE. 
A spaniel was bitten by a large Leonberg dog and the latter 
fractured both rami of the former’s lower jaw closely behind 
their union (body), so that the lower lip and peo of the lower 
jaw was pendulous. 
After narcotising the dog by means of a morphium injec- 
tion, I resected the fractured portion of the inferor maxilla, , 
also the corresponding part of the lower lip. As I was afraid 
at that time of the poisonous action from applying sublimate on 
mucous membrane, the operating region was washed with 
salicylic water (0.3 per cent.) and the instruments as well as 
hands disinfected in the same solution. I then made two 
incisions commencing sidewise on the edge of the lower lip at 
the height of the fracture, and coming together, going down- 
wards at the mental angle, so that a wedge-shaped portion of 
the lower lip with the part of the lower jaw situated on it was 
removed. The two rami of the lower jaw were fastened to 
each other with a sling made out of silver wire, and the wound 
on the lip was sutured with silk saturated in salicylic water. 
In the space between the lip and the fractured ends of the 
lower jaw rami some iodoform and a gauze tampon were 
placed, and within the first three days the patient received only 
drinking water. After six days the sutures could be re- 
moved from the lip wound, as a healing per primam inten- 
tionem took place. After the course of fourteen days, a few 
bone splinters came off. The silver wire was removed after 
three weeks, as the two rami now adhered closely to each other. 
