NAILS IN FEET. 
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The conditions which experience has taught me are nec¬ 
essary to successful treatment are briefly, 
1. Free escape of pus. 
2. Destruction of the membrane lining old sinuses and cavities. 
3. Removal of foreign substances, such as splinters of wood 
and diseased bone. 
4. Establishment of an active granulating process. 
The first I strive to gain at any cost. I accomplish such 
drainage by the knife trocar or cannula, setons of cloth, horse¬ 
hair, rubber tubing, shoemaker’s linen thread. Sometimes we 
need a seton that will reman in place for a I6ng period without 
decay. I have never tried to trephine the scapular, but I 
believe it can be done with advantage in those cases where a 
sinus runs down in that region. 
In a few cases bottom drainage seems impossible. The 
only satisfactory substitute with me has been peroxide of hy¬ 
drogen. Diluted nitric acid, carbolic acid, bichloride mercury,, 
peroxide creoline, and the ordinary white lotion, have proven 
the most practical antiseptics. The production of active, 
healthy granulations sometimes call for all the ingenuity a 
surgeon can muster. Turpentine, common salt solutions, have 
given good results. Where cases are annoying and persistent, 
and the discharge nearly ceases, I apply a blister with good 
results. The only way to get rid of foreign substance is by 
bold surgery. 
NAILS IN FEET. 
By John A. Bell, V.S., Watertown, N. Y. 
A paper read before the New York State Veterinary Society. 
While nails in the feet are quite common in our every day 
practice I recently had a case which was a little out of the 
general line. We usually have nail in the foot, but this was 
nails in the feet, for both hind feet were found to be punctured 
at one and the same time, or, at least, the injuries were found at 
the same time. The case was a 1,500 pound horse belonging to 
one of my customers. It happened while I was attending our 
