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THOMAS M. BUCKLEY. 
STABLE HYGIENE. 
Under which head I will briefly enumerate a few essential 
points. They should be spacious, well ventilated, lightsome, 
thorough drainage and free from dampness ; no bedding or 
manure should be permitted to remain in the stall in the day¬ 
time, and unless absolutely unavoidable, should a sick animal 
be treated in cellar stables. Stables should be lime washed at 
least four times a year and flooring washed down weekly dur¬ 
ing the summer months with one of the standard disinfecting 
solutions, as organic impurities usually exist in the air at all 
times in the form of bacteria, but especially more so where 
the air is loaded with impurities resulting from decomposi¬ 
tion, and I believe that the majority of the ultimate results of 
our surgical cases would be far more successful if we adopted 
a rigid antiseptic system, for this is truly an antiseptic age, 
and as veterinarians, the sooner we adopt such principals the 
better will we be able to combat successfully operations that 
now frequently fail to terminate as favorably hs we desire, for 
'it is well established by this time in human practice that one 
of the most important factors mentioned as having of late 
years influenced the results after gastrotomy, enterotomy 
and ovariotomy, is the application of the antiseptic treatment 
before, during and after the operation, and there remains no 
reason why we should fail to advocate the strictest antiseptic 
precaution, which we are morally and legally bound to re¬ 
spect in justice to our dumb brute creation, the public and our 
profession, for we are well assured, by their use peritonitis 
and pyaemia is extensively averted. 
We are familiar with the occasional results of puncturing 
in tympanitis, likewise from use of the hypodermatics, which 
may be attributed to the septic condition of instruments, 
which it may not be out of place at this time to mention a 
few antiseptic agents that are easily obtained and the majority 
of them being inexpensive; carbolic acid, biniodide of mer¬ 
cury, bi-chloride of mercury, iodoform, boracic acid, chlo¬ 
ral hydrate, peroxide of hydrogen, creolin, and to sum¬ 
marize briefly we may divide the antiseptic method into four 
(4) divisions: 
