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the part with the solution of chloride of zine, one grain to the ounce of 
water. This lotion will suppress any fetor, and gently stimulate the 
healing process, as well as prevent the sprouting of fungoid granula- 
tious; it is necessary also to attend strictly to the directions laid down 
for feeding during the curing of wounds. 
TWO KINDS OF SUTURES RARELY EMPLOYED UPON THE HORSE. 
No. 1. The continuous suture, which is employed for sewing up portions of bowel when the intestines 
are injured and exposed. 
No.2. The desp suture or the quill sntnre. In the horse pieces of wood are substitnted for quills. ‘The 
wood is notched in the center; and upon the indentations the sutures are fixed, to prevent the 
movements of the animal from displacing them. It is sometimes employed to bring the sides 
of deep and gaping wounds closer together. 
The treatment of an abraded wound chiefly consists in cleansing the 
surface with plenty of cold water, which should be allowed by its own 
weight to wash off any loose particles of dirt. No cloth or other aid 
should be employed to scrub the living flesh as though it were an insen- 
sitive board. The matter which cannot be removed by simply sluicing, 
had better remain to be expelled by the secretion of pus. The horse, 
especially when terrified, endures pain very badly; indeed, the animal is 
so timid and so delicately framed that it is always good surgery to spare 
all unnecessary suffering. 
Support the body with laudanum and ether drinks, one ounce of each 
to the pint of water, as often as they may be needed. Let the food be 
generous, unless fever should arise, when the directions already given 
must be attended to. 
Punctured wounds require only one kind of treatment, whether a nail 
be driven into the flesh of the foot, or the shaft of a cart be forced into 
the substance of the thigh. Here the knife must be employed; and, 
unless the animal shows evident symptoms of excessive weakness, it is 
better, perhaps, to operate while the parts are partially numbed by the 
