REPORTS OF CASES. 
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EXTENSIVE ARTICULAR WOUND TREATED SUCCESSFULLY 
BY ANTISEPTIC DRESSINGS. * 
In looking over the September number of your most 
welcome visitor, the American Veterinary Review, on 
page 313 an article on Antiseptic Treatment, by Dr. Labaw, 
interested me very much, and as I have had some lit¬ 
tle experience with wounds of various kinds, I thought may- 
haps the following might be of interest to the profession. 
On Sunday, August 31st, I was called to see a sorrel mare, 
nine years old, that had by some means got her right front 
foot over a saw-toothed-barbed wire in the fence. The wire 
had cut through the skin at the inferior third of the ossuffra- 
ginis, partially encircling the pastern joint, cutting downward 
until the coronary band was completely severed at the inner 
quarter of the hoof; a branch of the perforans tendon was 
also severed. In fact it was a most formidable-looking sight. 
The joint was opened and the blood flowing freely from both 
vein and artery. I took up the artery and ligated it with silk, 
and the vein by torsion, and dressed with aqua corosive 1-1000 ; 
then laid on a quantity of absorbent cotton, over which a light 
bandage was applied. The next day I sent the ambulance 
for the mare and brought her to my infirmary. I then re¬ 
moved the dressing, being very careful to disturb the wound 
as little as possible, and dressed it with tinct. myrrh §iij., 
creosote §j, mixed and poured into the wound, applying the 
cotton and bandage as before. I used this dressing three 
times, applying it once every other day ; then changed to 
white lotion once a day for a week, removing the cotton 
only every other day. At this time, with only twelve days 
treatment, the synovial discharge had entirely ceased and 
with it I ceased bandaging, and have since dressed the wound 
once a day with white lotion and powdered boracic acid 
alternately, being very careful not to remove any scabs from 
the edges of the wound or irritate it in any way while apply¬ 
ing the medicine; and to-day, just twenty-two days since 
she was hurt, the animal is ready for work, apparently as 
♦This was sent to us without the name of the author.—Ed. 
