PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE FOOT. 
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May 15th.—Temperature, 103 2-5 0 ; pulse, 96. He had 
passed a very uncomfortable night, and had been let out of 
the slings at 4 A. M., but would not lie quietly when down, 
notwithstanding he was turned frequently. He had made a 
number of attempts to rise, but was not successful. I probed 
deeply and found quite a surface of bone very rough. I ad¬ 
vised destroying, but the owner was away and the foreman 
was unwilling to act. I got the horse up at 8 A.M., with the 
aid of slings, and kept him there till 2 P. M. At 8 P. M. put 
him in the slings again and gave directions to keep him there 
as long as possible. He was let down at 12 P. M. I gave him 
two hypodermic injections of 6 grains each of morphine, and 
three doses of camphor and opium through the day and night. 
Applied hot poultices every three hours. 
May 16th.—Temperature, 104; pulse very weak. I tried 
to put the horse in the slings, but was unsuccessful. The 
owner returned and was willing to destroy him. He was 
shot at 9 A. M. 
Through the whole course of the case I injected the 
wound once a day with three per cent, solution carbolic acid, 
and the soft parts were washed with the same when the poul¬ 
tices were changed. 
Post-mortem showed a patch of necrosis on the navicular 
bone the size of an old-fashioned three-cent piece. 
Case No. 2.—On May 19th, 1889, I was called to a brown 
gelding weighing about 950 pounds, used in a delivery 
wagon. The day before the horse had picked up a nail in 
the off hind foot, by the side of the frog, and about an inch 
and a half from its apex. When the driver removed it, which 
he did with much difficulty, he said that no blood flowed, but 
that some liquid came out that looked like thin syrup. 
The horse was taken home, the shoe removed and a flax¬ 
seed meal poultice applied. The next morning he did not eat 
his breakfast and would, not touch his foot to the floor, so I 
was called. I found the horse with a temperature of ioi°, 
pulse 60, respiration 20. A clear synovia was dripping from 
the wound. From my experience with the former case I de¬ 
cided that 1 could make the matter no worse by probing to 
