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support a treatment that may be long, but necessary. But if 
cows remain a long time, and are badly fed after the cure of the 
feet, they may sink into such a state of marasmus as never to 
rise again. Care and medicine are then useless, and the cows 
rapidly sink. 
As soon as the eschar falls I dress it with the simple digestive 
ointment, slightly camphorated. This I cover with thin tow, on 
which is placed a bag filled with cold bran and water, care being 
taken that the bran is not mouldy. 
When the wound is favourable, I replace the dressing with the 
simple cerate of lead. If, on the contrary, it enlarges and 
becomes ulcerous, I form a mixture of two parts of pulverised 
charcoal and one of red quinine in powder, with which I 
sprinkle the wound, and, instead of bran, I substitute powder of 
gentian. 
If a kind of proud flesh rises and spreads, dressing of 
egyptiacum should be employed, and, if it assumes the form of 
grapes, I touch it with chloride of antimony. 
The sloughing of the sound internal extensor ligament always 
draws after it a portion of the bone on which it is inserted, as 
well as of the synovial capsule of the articulation of the first 
with the second phalangien. In this case I close the opening 
with lint or tow, covered with camphorated digestive ointment. 
I will not repeat what I have written respecting the sloughing 
of the other tendons, and their results. 
If some portions of the bone are affected with necrosis, which 
is announced by fistulous ulcers, the borders of which project, 
and sometimes become reversed, I dilate the opening ; and then, 
after having taken suitable care, I have the feet cleaned and 
examined, and, if there is much enlargement, I have recourse 
to bleeding, as much as prudence will permit, both on the 
tumefied parts around the pastern, and on the network of the 
plantar veins. It is here that we inflict the greatest number of 
incisions with the fleam, for the blood loiters here in a peculiar 
manner, and decomposes the neighbouring parts and forms collec- 
tions of pus. Care, however, should be taken that the fleam should 
not penetrate too deeply near the ligaments of the feet, nor 
wound or touch the synovial capsules, nor the bone of the 
pastern, for this, instead of diminishing the inflammation, will 
sensibly augment it. 
After having dilated the wound, I have the foot put into luke- 
warm water, in order to encourage the bleeding. Six or seven 
pounds of blood can be subtracted by this means, in certain 
cases. When the skin is thickened, and the vessels are enlarged 
and filled with black and stagnant blood, one blow with the 
