GHAPLT ER 11-1. 
WOUNDS. 
General remarks on the Treatment of Wounds. Sutures, Antiseptic 
Applications. Brushing and Speedy Cutting, Sore Back, Sitfast, 
Harness Galls. Broken Kuicees. 
GENERAL REMARKS ON THE TREATMENT OF WOUNDS, 
SUTURES, ANTISEPTIC APPLICATIONS. 
THE subject to which we now call the attention of our readers, is one of 
universal interest. All horsemen should have some accurate knowledge of 
the usual scientific methods of treating the commoner and less severe kinds © 
of wounds, 
With the object of being more precise in our description of wounds, we 
may conveniently divide them as follows :—incised, or made with a cutting 
instrument, punctured, lacerated, bruised, and finally, those caused by 
firearms. We might also add poisoned wounds to this list. 
A minute description of the ways in which wounds are healed, would 
doubtless be. of great interest to some of our readers ; but, as we fear this 
would not prove of much practical value, we shall forthwith proceed to 
consider the best methods to be adopted for promoting the repair of the 
injured tissues. It is well known, that the power of-repairing lost tissues and 
the healing of wounds, is much greater and more rapid in some of the lower 
than it isin the higher animals, such as the horse and ox. Ifa crab or 
lobster have the misfortune to lose a limb, this can again be reproduced ° 
whereas, as we ascend the scale of animal life, the faculty of restoring a lost. 
member gradually disappears, and is finally lost altogether. Nevertheless, 
the healing of injuries of a very severe and extensive kind, is of daily 
occurrence in horses and other animals. Our methods of treatment of 
to-day are in accordance with the dictates of practical science, and more 
especially with those discoveries which, intimately associated with the name 
of Sir Joseph Lister, have shown the supreme value of great cleanliness and 
antiseptic applications. Our- forefathers, unfortunately, had no knowledge: 
of those tiny little fungi spoken of as germs. Certain organisms, floating 
about in the air around us, find their way into wounds, and thrive and 
ferment the more, as they find the raw surfaces unclean and unhealthy, and. 
