PROGRESS OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 695 
restored ; the wound has ceased to suppurate, and all swell- 
ing has subsided. — Journ . des Vet. du Midi , January, 1855. 
Penetrating wound of the abdomen in a mule 
THREE MONTHS OLD ; RECOVERY. — M. NicoleaU, a fourth 
year’s student of the Toulouse School, was requested on 
the 10th of July to attend a mule that had received the 
above injury from the horn of an ox. There was an irre- 
gularly lacerated, contused, and penetrating wound, about 
from four to five inches long, and one and a half broad. 
Superiorly, the costal cartilages were laid bare; inferiorly, 
there was complete laceration of the abdominal parietes. 
The hernial aperture about from three to four inches in cir- 
cumference, lets through from sixteen to twenty inches of 
small intestine. There is no constitutional disturbance; the 
intestine is red, but it had been protected and supported by 
a cloth till M. Nicoleau could arrive. 
An operation is immediately resorted to; the mule is quietly 
cast on a thick bed of straw, the gut is methodically and 
readily returned in the abdomen ; the wound is pared round 
to get rid of the injured parts ; slight hemorrhage super- 
venes. The muscles are brought together by a glover’s 
suture. A graduated compress is placed over them imbibed 
with alcohol and water ; six interrupted sutures, each of 
which, separated from the wound by a pledget of lint, are 
made to unite the cutaneous wound, and the whole is sup- 
ported by a bandage round the abdomen. The animal with 
difficulty rises and sustains the erect posture, but he is 
actively whisked over, and this shakes him and sets him firm 
on his legs again. The only treatment adopted consists in 
emollient clysters, frequent cold lotions, and total abstinence 
from food. 
July 14th. — Ever since the operation the animal has been 
lively and well, has defecated as in a state of health, and no 
signs of fever have manifested themselves. There is swelling 
of the wound : the animal is cast, the inferior commissure of 
the lips of the wound is slit up for the free exit of pus. 
The wound is dressed with Egyptiacum,* and the cold lotions 
ure discontinued. 
17th. — Wound very healthy, granulations fill the chasm, 
* Egyptiacum, or Unguentum Egyptiacum ( oxymel cuivreucc) of the 
Erench, is the “ JVlellitum de Acetate Cupri” or oxymel of copper. It 
consists of 
Diacetate of copper, lb. j. 
Vinegar, lb. j. 
Honey, lb. ij. 
Mix, and place in an earthen pot three times the size of the mixture ; boil 
