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wound toward the center which caused a slight haemorrhage, and, 
though it did not amount to much, it was unpleasant, inasmuch as 
I had. given the owner to understand that I would perform it 
without loss of blood. The almost level wound, measuring three 
inches in diameter, was now cleaned from blood, etc., dressed 
with phenylic acid and covered with a thin layer of cotton. 
Cotton is a feeble covering, still it together with the acid, helps 
keep out insects and dust. 
The animal was then tied short for three days and nights to 
protect the elbow against harm and the phenylic acid application 
repeated as often as necessary to prevent excrecrence. The 
hairy edge around the wound was oiled twice daily to prevent 
the cotton from adhering to it. 
After a few days, the raw surface began to fill, particularly 
the spot where the fibroid growth had been dug out, so that 
caustic potash had to be resorted to. This was applied only 
superficially on the largest, level space, while the seat of the fib¬ 
roid required its application several times within ten days and 
twice I made use of a few drops of saturated solution of chromic 
acid, which stopped the rebellious excrescences on the fibroid 
hiatus. From the 17th day solution resorcin and dermatol were 
applied in rotation until cicatrization was completed which was 
about the ninth week. 
This case would hardly be of any special import, it course 
being almost the same as the first, had it not been for the fibroid 
tissue which proved to be more tenacious for the ligature to cut 
through, than through the other three fourths. By applying an¬ 
other elastic tube of smaller dimensions, and giving it about two 
days time to constrict, this remaining fourth, my prognosis 
would have been confirmed, but allowing it to bleed, which might 
have been so easily prevented, it was somewhat weakened and 
should serve as a reminder never be to positive in expressing a 
prognosis. 
There is an almost unanimous opinion prevailing among vet¬ 
erinary practitioners, that the treatment of shoeboils, is, as a rule, 
unsatisfactory even when operated upon by excision, the method 
