102 ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 
diately when the horse gets up. As stated, this haemorrhage, 
which does not always take place, interferes with healing per 
primam intentionem only when it is profuse, so that the wound 
edges are forced apart by the pressure. Blood effusions, up to 
the size of an infant’s head, are resorbed without any harm. If 
a profuse effusion of blood follows, so that a healing per 
primam intentionem is not expected, the sutures are removed 
on the fourth or fifth day, the scrotal wound is made a little 
larger, and the healing with granulation follows, upon a daily 
rinsing out of the wound with sublimate water, in four weeks 
at the latest. A noteworthy fact which I noticed was that 
even in this healing per secundam intentionem suppuration 
never took place. 
I have castrated in this manner twelve horses of various 
types, from the pony up to the Hanover race, English full 
blood, and heavy Belgian, and gained the following results: 
Seven times healing per primam intentionem on both sides, 
twice on one side, and three times per secundam intentionem, 
so that out of twenty-four wounds 16, or 2-3 per cent. 
healed up per primam intentionem. I cannot record thus far 
any losses or after affects (spermatic cord fistula, peritonitis, 
etc.). 
To pacify anxious minds, who may think that tying up the 
spermatic cord with two ligatures of sublimate silk, which are 
left there, they possibly act as foreign bodies and produce an in- 
flammatory process on the spermatic stump, I may state, that 
disinfected silk heals in as well as catgut, the only difference 
being that silk does not get resorbed. I noticed in a post mor- 
tem I held on a horse that died from colic, and which I cas- 
trated the year previous, that the ligatures on.the spermatic 
stumps were smoothly healed in, without any trace of reaction 
in that vicinity. 
CONDYLOMA ON THE PRAEPUTIUM OF THE HORSE— 
REMOVAL—HEALING PER PRIMAM INTENTI- 
ONEM IN SIX DAYS. 
A heavy Belgian work horse had‘a wart the size of a dove’s 
egg on the point of its prepuce, which on account of its 
