OPERATIONS WITH ANTISEPTIC PRECAUTIONS. 109 
its acute stage, is large, hot and painful, and is often cut out 
bodily by stupid surgeons, which nearly ruins the muscle. Af- 
ter poulticing it for five days clip off the hair and make a punc- 
ture into the center of the tumor large enough to insert the 
index finger. An abscess will be found there containing from 
one to four drams of pus. Rinse it out with a one per cent 
solution of bichloride of mercury for three or four minutes and 
pack it with a pledget of clean oakum to maintain drainage. 
Poultice it for about five days with linseed meal soaked well 
in boiling water, dressing it once a day. The horse will usually 
be ready for work in 2 or 3 weeks. 
Other abscesses may be treated similarly, omitting the poul- 
tices, and reducing the strength of the bichloride to one-fifth 
per cent after the third day, without any suppuration during 
the filling of the cavity and resolutions of the inflammation. 
A.H.BJ 
