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MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY. 
that is necessary being to wash the parts with warm watei 
Ignorant quacks often apply salves and other greasy sub¬ 
stances to fresh wounds, which, instead of healing them, 
produce ulceration and sores; and stimulants rather retard 
the progress than facilitate the natural healing process. 
Where wounds are inflicted by a round substance, or an 
unequal-sided, or triangular instrument, they are more diffi¬ 
cult, and more tedious to heal. And if the wound is deep, 
sewing or pinning the parts must not be had recourse to. 
In such cases, deep-rooted suppuration is almost certain 
to attend them ; and although the external surface may 
be brought together and healed, ulceration will be lurking 
beneath, and the matter there collected must sooner or later 
find vent. Whenever it is suspected that ulceration is 
going on below, it will be better to keep the surface open, 
and in about a week probe the wound to the bottom, and 
thus make a free opening for the escape of the accumulated 
matter, which should be pressed out, and a warm poultice 
applied to the part to draw out all that remains. As soon 
as the inflammation completely subsides, granulation of the 
sides of the wound will take place, and it will ultimately 
heal up. 
In cases where valuable breeding cattle have received 
deep and severe wounds, and the proprietor is anxious to 
preserve the animals, then every means must be adopted 
which are known in the veterinary art to effect a cure. One 
of the first things to be attended to is to keep down in¬ 
flammation. This is most effectually accomplished by 
means of copious bleeding. In cases of the animal being 
gored, or deeply wounded in the belly, by leaping over a 
fence or other object, it often happens that the incision is 
of such an extent as to permit the bowels to protrude. 
The first thing to be done in such cases, is to see that the 
