WALKER ON ADHESIVE PLASTER. 
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I use common carpenter’s glue spread on linen, and it adheres 
so long as necessary ; but I do not apply the glued linen across 
the wound, as in the human subject. I cut two pieces of linen, one 
for each side of the wound, slit them into tails, and smear them 
with the liquid glue, except a small margin of the linen which is 
to lie alongside the lips of the wound. Two pieces are better 
than one piece, less likely to be displaced by the motion of the 
horse, and more easily refastened with fresh glue, should any part 
of it loosen. 
Having smeared the glue upon the linen, I also wet the hair 
and skin of the horse with the liquid glue, except the lips of the 
wound. I then apply the linen, one piece at each side of the 
wound, but not quite up to the lips of it, leaving the unglued 
margin of the linen at least one-quarter of an inch short of the 
wound. In about half an hour the glue will have dried, and the 
linen will be quite fast. The whole time it is drying it should 
be attended to, so as to press any part of the linen close to the 
skin, which by the motion of the horse might rise up. 
When it is quite fast, I, with a needle and thread, sew the 
two unglued margins of the linen together ; and as they were not 
quite close originally to the lips of the wound, you can compress 
the lips of it into as close contact as you please, by closing the 
stitching of the linen tight. The use of leaving the margin of the 
linen without glue is for the purpose of sewing it, as the needle 
would not readily penetrate the glued linen. 
It is evident that, according to the position of the wound, the 
shape of the linen strips or tails must vary. I have found it useful 
to have one or two of the tails pretty long, so as to take a better 
hold of a greater surface of the skin ; also that piece of linen which 
is to pull against the grain of the hair is the most difficult to secure, 
because the hair gives with it to a certain degree, and in placing 
that linen allowance should be made for that circumstance, and to 
place the margin of it a little further from the wound, so that the 
margins of the linen, when sewn, shall not meet sooner than the 
lips of the wound. 
By this method I have cured, with scarcely any blemish, and in 
an incredibly short period, several very severe wounds. Of course, 
where necessary, it is easy to leave any portion of the wound un- 
closed, for any matter to run off. The first case in which this 
method occurred to me was a very spirited mare which ran away 
with a jaunting car down a steep hill, to which there was a parapet 
wall coped with flags upon thin edge. She struck her shoulder 
against the edge of the coping at the top of the hill, and rubbed 
against it all the wav to the bottom, so that when she arrived at 
the foot of the hill, where she fell almost without motion, the entire 
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