530 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
wounds and then ignored, is yet employed in Belgium, in connectiom 
with antisepsy. 
Here is the therapeutic technic used by Hebrant, which gave him gs. 
p- 100 of recoveries: 
Immediately after the accident, the injured region, after being well 
cleansed, is soaked in bran water. It is then disinfected in the most: 
complete manner with phenicated water 5 p. 100, or Van Swieten solution,. 
and then covered with a coat of camphor ointment (camphor and lard. 
a. a.). : 
“The horse is kept by himself, in a narrow stall, and submitted to a. 
proper diet and nitrated drinks. The ointment is applied four or five: 
times aday. After the first three days the strength of the ointment is. 
reduced—1 part of camphor for 2 of lard, 1 for 3,1 for 4. The horse is. 
not taken out of the stable as long as the treatment lasts. The great quan-- 
tity of camphor spread over the whole region produces a continuous cool-- 
ness, which prevents the inflammation of the joint; the second or third 
day the region is swollen, the albumen of the synovia is coagulated, gran- 
ulations are stimulated, the fistula is soon obliterated. Besides this, cam- 
phor has antiseptic properties, that we re-enforce by the addition of phenic 
acid in the proportion of 5 p. 100.” 
This, it seems to us, is an antiseptic method in which camphor does. 
not play the principal part. To clean and disinfect the region with 
phenicated water at 5 p. 100, or with Van Swieten lotion, this is well ;. 
but iodoform in powder, or iodoformed vaseline, would give just as good 
results, at least, as camphorated ointment. 
Among the treatments recommended of late, let us mention the 
envelopment of the region and the closing of the wound with a rubber 
roller (Petzold), with “ clay” (Hoffmann), and the injection in the wound 
of an alcoholic tannic solution (Vigezzi). 
By this examination of the history of the therapeutics of articular 
wounds, it is seen that recoveries have been obtained with most varied 
means. But if comparison could be made between the successes and 
the numerous failures, the result would be of the darkest. Whatever 
has been said, most of those treatments would be powerless against’ 
penetrating traumas, if infected in their depth. 
The notions given by the pathogeny of the complications to which 
wounds are exposed impose the abandonment of the old methods for 
antisepsy. This must dominate the treatment of articular wounds. 
Fricks of articulations, in general, are less severe than large wounds, 
or those with loss of substance. Made under given rules, they 
are harmless. We will see that hydarthrosis can be punctured with 
trocar with most complete impunity ; but for that we used instruments 
