TREATMENT 85 
tions, and rubbed as dry as possible. We then 
cover the withers with a layer of cotton or 
gauze and hold it in place with a muslin or bur- 
lap sheet tied down with cords encircling the 
breast and the girth. The patient is now ready 
for the stall. 
after-carc. At the end of twenty-four hours 
Fic. 9—TuHe Drarnace Tuse Arrer THE Wounp Has BEEN 
SutureD, TyPICAL FIstuLa. 
the sutures are removed and the packing lifted 
out carefully. There is at this time still some 
danger of bleeding if the interior of the cavity 
is harshly handled. We, therefore, advise that 
no attempt be made to clean out the blood clots 
attached here and there about the cavity until 
the end of forty-eight hours, but that we con- 
tent ourselves with a second packing of oakum 
