PREVENTION, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT 2 y^ 



animals having the vice. Wind-sucking occasionally -occurs in 

 cattle. 



In the beginning, simple biting of the stall fixtures may be 

 prevented by covering all such parts with metal or using iron fix- 

 tures and giving so much work that there will be no time for acquir- 

 ing vicious habits. In wind-sucking the use of a muzzle or spiked 

 strap about the larynx will sometimes prevent the habit. The 

 absence of anything about the stall to bite may favor a cure. This 

 is obtained by avoidance *of any manger and feeding on the ground, 

 or by using a manger which may be removed after feeding or turned 

 into a recess in the wall. When tympany occurs, the use of carron 

 oil (§iv) on the food (which should be easily digestible, as cut hay 

 and grain )" will "tend to overcome this condition. Isolation of wind- 

 suckers, to avoid communication of the trick to other animals, is 

 essential. 



Wounds — Fi&tulae— Open Joints— Ulcers. 



Operative Wounds. — The hair should be shaven from the 

 surrounding area and the skin scrubbed with green soap and water 

 the night before the operation, and the skin should be painted with 

 tincture of iodine just before the operation. It is safer for the 

 operator to wear rubber gloves and better for the patient. The 

 wound should be handled as little as possible. All bleeding must be 

 arrested before closing the wound. If the wound is deep, it may 

 be closed by layers of buried sutures of sterile catgut and the skin 

 by interrupted silkworm gut sutures. Irrigation of the wound is 

 not advisable in human surgery, unless it has become soiled by in- 

 fectious material, and is then conducted with normal salt solution. 

 In veterinary practice the surroundings and air are favorable to 

 infections and therefore it is well to irrigate the field of operation 

 with 2 per cent, lysol or i to 3,000 corrosive sublimate solution. 



Drainage in a wound made aseptically in uninfected tissue is 

 usually uncalled for, unless the wound is very deep, or involves 



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