USE OF TORSION IN THE CASTRATION OF THE HORSE. 205 
I had in the infirmary an intelligent groom, to whose care I 
entrusted Tout-beau, and I saw the animal about once in every 
week. 
The first dressing being removed, the suppuration was abun¬ 
dant, and of a brown tint; a simple digestive was therefore 
applied. 
For some time small splinters came away at each dressing. 
The parts surrounding the wound, at first very much swelled, 
diminished by little and little, and the suppuration became less 
abundant; the power of the digestive was then increased by the 
addition of tincture of aloes. 
The extremities of the bones began to approach, and a callus 
formed, and that portion of the limb seemed to be very much 
shortened. 
The wound, which was afterwards dressed with dry lint, healed 
in about three months ; but in that time several little abscesses 
had appeared, from which spiculae of bone were discharged. 
Tout-beau attempted to walk a little from the very commence¬ 
ment. As the wound cicatrized he got more about, holding up 
the broken limb; at length he began to rest some of his weight 
upon it; and at the end of five months he walked and ran, halting 
a little. 
Tout-beau had the lot of those who cease to be necessary. 
For a little while after the accident one and another of the officers 
sent to inquire about him ; but before he was cured he was quite 
forgotten ; and, when cured, nobody claimed him, nobody would 
take him. He became a true regimental dog, living sometimes 
at one table, and sometimes at another, and then taking his walk 
in the forest of St. Germain. This misfortune had gained him 
the pity of the soldiers, who never shot at him as they did at 
every other stray dog; but otherwise there remained for poor Tout- 
beau nothing but the consciousness of liberty and independence. 
THE USE OF TORSION IN THE CASTRATION OF 
THE HORSE. 
Bi/ Mr. J. C. Molyneux, U.iS’., Lo?iclo)i. 
“ No mail was ever so coinplctelj' skilled in the conduct of life as not to receive new 
information from age and experience.” 
Having from time to time read in The Veterinarian 
cases of the use of torsion for the prevention of hemorrhage from 
arteries, and hints that it might possibly supersede the clumsy 
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