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lotions and oils are very valuable, more especially when the injury is taking 
on an unhealthy action, or is discharging fetid matter. A useful lotion of 
carbolic acid for veterinary purposes may be made of carbolic acid, one 
part; water, thirty-six parts; and glycerine, four parts. For superficial 
injuries, carbolised oil is sometimes to be preferred to the lotion, as it 
does not flow away so rapidly, or evaporate to the same extent as the 
former preparation. It may be made of olive oil, thirty parts ; and carbolic 
acid, one part. For foul ulcerated surfaces, twenty parts of oil to one of 
the acid will be found a valuable application. Lotions and ointments of 
oil of eucalyptus or of salicylic acid are also very valuable. 
In cases of incised wounds, the animal should be fed on a laxative 
cooling diet, and the bowels should be gently acted upon, by two or three 
drachms of aloes. Punctured wounds are of a more dangerous nature than 
‘simple incised injuries. In those instances where the tissues are not much 
lacerated, it should be our object to promote early adhesion by the application 
of weak boric acid lotion, and bathing with cold water. Suturing will 
necessarily not be applicable to such cases. In very severe punctures, the 
danger is much greater, and it is very important to apply warm water 
fomentations assiduously during the day. In case any foreign body be left 
in the wound, it must be removed as early as possible ; and, if there be severe 
hemorrhage, steps must be taken to prevent it. Poultices and fomentations 
are also of value in those cases, where the injury may be expected to take on 
aninflammatory action. Internally, a mild aperient of three or four drachms 
of aloes should be given, and strict quietude should be enjoined. If. 
there be inflammatory action and febrile symptoms appear, the diet should 
be laxative and restricted in amount, and drenches, containing five minims 
of Fleming’s tincture of aconite with four ounces of liquor ammonii acetatis, 
may be given with four ounces of water twice daily. When a limb is 
much injured, it is sometimes advisable to place the animal in slings. 
In simple bruises, cold applications are indicated, such for example as 
spirit lotion, which may be made of spirit, one part; solution of acetate of 
lead, one part; water, eight parts. If, however, “matter” or pus is already 
being formed, warm applications and poultices are necessary. When the 
injured animal is much debilitated, strengthening diet and tonics soon 
become necessary, especially if there be much discharge of matter. | 
A very severe incised wound came under our notice just lately ; and we 
may conclude with a short veswmé of this important and interesting 
case :—On November 17th, 1885, we were summoned to see a thorough- 
bred yearling foal, on a farm on the Lincolnshire Wolds. The muscles in 
front of the near fore leg, between the shoulder and the knee, were quite 
divided to the bone, and hung down pendulously about seven inches. The 
skin was torn transversely and longitudinally. This severe injury had been 
sustained several hours before our arrival. In accordance with the usual 
prevalent but most erroneous popular notions, the furnace had been lighted 
and cloths procured, for the purpose of continuous fomentation. Happily 
this had not been started ; but the fact of its being strongly discountenanced, 
