250 WALKER ON ADHESIVE PLASTER. 
flat side of the shoulder was a mass of raw torn flesh. There was 
a great loss of flesh and skin. The mare was brought to me, and 
the owner being a poor man, and T knowing the mare to be a good 
huntress, 1 gave him £10 for her on chance of her recovering, 
though there appeared very little chance at the time. 
I cut off some lumps of flesh which were hanging. I then drew 
the skin with stitches together, which T knew, however, would 
not hold unless I could secure the skin in the position I had 
brought it, or until I could apply something in the manner of stick- 
ing-plaster to assist it, particularly as the wound was running in 
various directions ; and in consequence of the loss of skin, I had to 
force what remained out of its natural position. I knew the ordi- 
nary plasters would not do, and, some carpenters happening to have 
glue for their work in the stable, I thought of trying it. 
I first covered the whole side of the shoulder with one piece of 
glued linen. This, however, was a failure, for long before it dried, 
the trembling and shuddering of the skin where the wound was 
situated quivered up the linen into a loose bag over the wound. 
It then occurred to me to glue separate pieces of linen with thin 
edges cut so as to follow the shapes of the lips of the wounds, and, 
when dry, to sew the edges together. I did so, and it perfectly 
succeeded. 
I kept the mare in a loose house for about a month. I bled her 
at first, gave her constant laxative balls, fed her well with soil 
and boiled oats ; and at the end of the month, observing the drain 
I had left in the lowest part of the wound dry, I wetted the whole 
shoulder with warm water, soaking it for about half an hour. The 
glued linen all came away, the skin was perfectly healed, and 
nothing to be seen but a few scarcely perceptible seams where the 
skin had been brought together. She carried me well in the field 
that season and the next, and, for several years after, hunted well 
with a gentleman I sold her to. No one unacquainted with the 
circumstance would have perceived any blemish on her shoulder. 
The next case was a hunter who had cut the sheath of the back 
sinew of his fore leg with the toe of the hind shoe in leaping. I 
treated it in the same way, by glueing a piece above, another below 
the wound, and, when dry, sewed it together, and with the same 
success. In this case I left long tails to both pieces of linen, so as 
to wrap round the leg of the horse, the better to secure it. 
Another case was a very bad cut knee. It seemed as if cut in 
the fall with a slate or sharp-edged stone. I placed a glued linen 
above and below, getting a good hold for each, as I stated before, 
by turning the tails of it round the leg; and, by sewing the edges 
of the linen together, the lips of the cut were brought into close 
contact, and healed well. I have also found this plan good where 
