OPERATIONS WITH ANTISEPTIC PRECAUTIONS. 99 
The ‘horse was laid down, the lame foot downwards. The 
left fore foot was tied on to the right hind foot and an Esmarch 
bandage applied. After thoroughly washing the whole foot up 
to the pastern joint, with soap and water and disinfecting with 
plenty of sublimate water, the following horn parts on the inner 
side of the hoof were cut out: wall of the sensitive lamina, 
plantar cushion, corner prop bar and_ plantar frog. These 
parts were severed from the hoof matrix and exposed grayish 
red, turbid serum. Asa consequence of these changes, which 
represented the commencement of the necrosis, the correspond- 
ing soft parts of the horny portions removed, also had to be cut 
down and the pad of the crown as far as the hornwall, was re- 
moved, as well as the inner plantar cushion, which showed the 
same condition. 
The wound, fully the size of a palm, in which the lateral car- 
tilage ribs were laid bare, was plentifully rinsed out with subli- 
mate water and powdered with iodoform. On the wound a few 
tours of gauze were put, and then absorbent cotton and ban- 
dage, reaching up to the pastern joint, was laid on. 
As in all hoof operations, I ordered the bandage to be sat- 
urated with sublimate water one-half per cent. three times 
daily, during the first six days after the operation, then until the 
fourteenth day but once daily. 
When changing the bandage after fourteen days, it was evi- 
dent that the wound had exudated but little, but was already all 
covered with granulation, while on the edges quite a new for- 
mation of horn was noticeable. 
The bandage was changed twice more, in intervals of four- 
teen days, and seven weeks after the operation the patient was 
able to do easy work, having been shod with a bar shoe. The 
horse, after a regular hoof formation had come into effect, re- 
sumed his work as carriage horse without going lame. 
CASTRATION OF STALLION. 
According to BAYER’S procedure, also considering that 
with antisepsis, the dangers, which undoubtedly lie in the pres- 
