88 ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 
salves, etc.,) proved ineffectual, I resorted to the knife to re- 
move the swelling. 
In a dorsal position with head stretched backwards the hair 
was trimmed off the tumor, the field of operation washed with 
soap and disinfected with sublimate water. Hands and in- 
struments were also treated the same. 
The skin as well as the platysma myodes were cleaved in a 
direction from the front backwards to a length of about 15 cm. 
and the tumor up to its pedicle was decorticated, and it was no- 
ticed at the time that the jugular vein was partly grown around 
by the tumor. The pedicle, in order to prevent bleeding as 
much as possible, was torn off by twisting the tumor. The cav- 
ity in the wound, which was at least double the size of a fist, 
was rinsed out lavishly with sublimate water, and then the skin, 
as well as the nearby sections of muscle, were closely sutured 
with sublimate silk. When the bull got up, a secondary hem- 
orrhage into the wound cavity took place, forming a tumor the 
size of a man’s hand. Notwithstanding this the sutures were 
left intact, as the blood did not percolate, and the tumor was 
rinsed once daily with sublimate water. 
The haemorrhage absorbed and the wound healed up prima 
intentione, so that after three weeks the swelling was no longer 
visible. In this case also the ‘‘healed-in” sutures had to be re- 
moved later. 
NEURECTOMY OF THE INNER AND OUTER BRANCH 
OF THE PLANTAR NERVES OVER THE PASTERN 
JOINT. (HIGH PLANTAR NEURECTOMY.) 
Neurectomy is an operation which, considering the many 
important advantages that it offers in the treatment of many 
hoof and toe ailments, and considering the fact that the great 
fear of bad results is not justified, should be much more fre- 
quently performed than it really is. To express myself briefly, 
I will state that in my opinion (especially in draught horses) 
neurectomy is always indicated in all such cases (where there is 
a chronic ailment of any part, from the pastern joint down- 
