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Irrigate the wound most thoroughly with corrosive sublimate 

 (i to 1,000), or lysol (2 per cent.) solution if it contains foreign 

 bodies (otherwise do not irrigate), suture the wound with boiled 

 silk or silkworm gut and cover with iodoform gauze. The limb must 

 be then splintered from the forearm to fetlock with three padded 

 wooden splints, and the splints fastened about the limb by adhesive 

 plaster, or by straps of webbing, and the whole covered with a 

 bandage. 



If signs of infection and suppuration ensue (as increase in 

 temperature and swelling), the dressing and stitches must be 

 removed and the wound thoroughly irrigated as above, and a wet 

 antiseptic dressing should be applied for a few days (sterile gauze 

 wet with 2 per cent, lysol solution and covered with rubber or oil 

 silk, bandage and splints). As the inflammation subsides and swell- 

 ing and acute symptoms abate, then Peruvian balsam and a dressing 

 of dry sterile gauze are indicated. 



If the sheath of the extensor tendon is opened, the tendon ex- 

 posed, or the joint penetrated, place the animal in slings and apply 

 wet antiseptic dressings and splints, as above, until the more acute 

 condition passes, when the wound may be treated with frequent 

 irrigation of lysol or corrosive solution, drained, and dressed with 

 dry iodoform gauze, bandage and splints. 



Opening of the carpo-metacarpal articulation renders recovery 

 more probable than if other divisions of the knee-joint are pene- 

 trated. 



Otherwise, when the tendon is much lacerated, or the joint 

 opened, or when there is fracture of one of the bones entering into 

 the joint, there is little probability of securing a useful and supple 

 joint, and slaughter may be indicated. In severe cases of broken 

 knee, the Bier treatment should be tried (p. 278). 



Broken Wind (Asthma, Emphysema). 



Broken Wind in veterinary parlance is used in rather a loose 



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