R. W. FINLAY. 
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bandages of about four inches wide and three yards long, after 
which a thin solution of plaster is spread over all the leg, held in 
proper position until the plaster has set, which generally takes 
about ten minutes, when the opposite leg was treated to the 
same dressing. It is surprising the degree of comfort that is mani¬ 
fested when the dressings have set. 
There is always a certain degree of surgical fever present in 
these cases which calls for mild measures of the aperient, diuretic 
and tonic type; the food to be of a laxative variety and a liberal 
supply of water containing a sprinkling of oatmeal. Careful 
watching for destructive changes in the neighborhood of the 
injuries, day by day, did not reveal the necessity for removal of 
bandages in order to dress antiseptically until the 18th, or eight 
days after the accident, when removal of the dressings revealed a 
comparatively safe molecular death of parts that would warrant 
the same method being adopted as before described, with this ex¬ 
ception, that I dressed only the left leg. The right received atten¬ 
tion the day following. 
Seven days subsequent to this I dressed the left leg, when a 
slough compassing two inches of the sheath and posterior tendon 
came away, leaving a pretty healthy looking edge of wound. I 
cleansed the wound with solution of carbolic to which was added 
a small amount of tinct. aloes comp., dusted over with the charcoal. 
Applied oakum, covering over the whole leg from hock down, 
applying a dry bandage from below upward, in order to prevent 
discharge from forming pockets in the sheath of the tendons below 
the wound; after which applied plaster bandages as before de¬ 
scribed. Opposite leg dressed next day; slough somewhat smaller 
than the left. Same fair appearance of wound, exhibiting a gran¬ 
ulating tendency; dressed it same as other. Animal pretty easy 
for a case of its magnitude. Appetite somewhat capricious. 
Bowels inclined to be costive; regulated with one gill of ground 
flaxseed in the evening feed. Allowed plenty of vegetables; dis¬ 
posed to relish carrots and apples. Yegetable tonics and mild 
diuretics given daily to improve general tone of digestion. 
Eight days subsequent, which brings us up to May 3d, removed 
dressings of the left leg, when a clean looking granulating wound 
was exhibited that had filled about one-half the gap with good 
