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minutes or half an hour in a warm antiseptic solution. For serious 
traumatisms of the trunk and of the superior parts of the extremities, 
we have sometimes resorted during the first few days to nebulizations 
(atomizing) of corrosive sublimate or carbolic acid, made with the 
atomizer of Lucas-Championniére. Balneation or nebulizations are 
continued until the elimination of the sloughing tissues. In other’ 
cases, after the wound has been well disinfected, it is sufficient to 
irrigate several times a day with a solution of cresyl or common salt, 
and to cover it, after each washing, with iodoformed vaseline or to dust 
it with an antiseptic powder (iodoform, naphtaline, tannin, coaltar) in ° 
sufficient quantity to cover it entirely. Continued irrigation is also 
used with much success : it is generally employed for contused wounds 
of the extremities on horses. It removes the secretions, diminishes the 
sensibility and the pain, and attenuates the intensity of inflammatory 
accidents. It is stopped when the wound is cleaned and free from all 
shreds of mortified tissues ; it has the inconvenience of retarding the 
cicatrization by rendering the granulations soft or fungous. The facts 
recorded by Trasbot have confirmed the remarkable efficacy of cold 
irrigations in the treatment of traumatisms of horses; it is important 
that the water should not be too cold, since the continued action of cold 
would be injurious, especially if parts of some dimension were already 
under the influence of ischemia. 
Warm antiseptic baths, given twice or only once a day, with iodoform 
dressings, constitute a treatment a little more complicated than cool 
irrigations, but also more certain and more rapid. We obtain good 
results with it. Recently, we have employed it with great success, for 
a saddle horse severely injured by a tramway: the canon, fetlock 
coronet and head on their anterior faces had a long contused wound, with 
ragged edges ; the tendon of the anterior extensor of the phalanges 
and the periosteum were bruised in several places ; the synovial bursa 
of the fetlock was open. No complication took place ; after a month 
the wound was entirely healed. 
It is the exception that treatment of wounds, accompanied with 
fracture of a bone of the extremities, or with articular lesions, is under- 
taken. Forthem the treatment of compound fractures or of open joints 
is necessary. 
To contused wounds of the lower regions of the extremities, produced 
by the shoe, is often added a local, active, and diffused phlegmasia, 
lymphangitis, and sometimes inflammation of the tendinous or articular 
synovial sacs of the fetlock. For them especially, antiseptic baths and 
wadded dressings must be used. In some cases (horses that inter- 
fere) repetitions of the trouble must be prevented by proper shoeing or 
protective apparatus, 
