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and oozing generally over the whole of the outer surface, 
is rarely profuse enough to interfere with the operation, 
and is easily controlled by cold water douches and the 
application of the artery forceps to one or more of the 
larger vessels. The operation completed, the larger bleed- 
ing-points should be secured by exerting torsion with the 
artery forceps, and the surface oozing stayed by frequent 
dashing with cold water. 
When the hemorrhage has sufficiently ceased, an 
ordinary flat firing-iron should be passed over the whole 
of the cut surface, and an effectual eschar formed. 
Following this, and before removing the tourniquet, the 
wound should be filled with pledgets of carbolized tow, and 
the whole tightly secured by a stout and broad linen 
bandage of not less than 6 yards in length. 
Reported Case.—‘ The patient, a middle-aged cart mare, 
had a pair of fore-feet the like of which I never saw. As 
the result of long-standing and imperfectly-treated quittor 
all over the seat of side-bone on the outer side of each fore- 
foot, beginning pretty far forward, and extending to the 
heel on the inner side, filling up the hollow and reaching 
nearly to the fetlock, was a big, bulging, hard, calloused 
enlargement or tumour standing out 3 or 4 inches all 
round, covered with thick horny skin and stubby hair, and 
having on its surface the small openings of several sinuses 
leading deeply down to the ossified and diseased cartilage 
underneath. And yet with all this diseased undergrowth 
the mare, strangely enough, walked and trotted sound. I 
was told that this mare had been troubled with suppurating 
corns and quittor, that many unsuccessful attempts had 
been made at cure, but that, getting worse instead of better, 
these tumours had formed. 
‘ After casting and anesthetizing, a strong rubber tourni- 
quet was placed above the knee and the operation com- 
menced. With a surgeon’s amputating knife all the big 
fibrous mass which I could safely remove was cut and 
sliced off, and the coronet and pastern reduced as nearly as 
possible to its natural dimensions. The diseased cartilage, 
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