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invention, so I lay claim to no talent except such as you all pos¬ 
sess. Thoroughly studying the case at hand and devising some 
appliance, simple, safe and strong, to aid you, is the best plan and 
only rule you need. 
“ The first is a poultice boot (Fig. i-a, also Fig. 3-a), light, 
weighing only 12 ounces, durable, the sole being of one-half-inch 
elk sole leather, hand-sewed and water-proof 20-ounce canvas 
upper, with all seams waxed. It is sanitary and can be washed 
at liberty. It is neat, shapes itself to the foot and leg and laces 
tightly around the leg as a high topped shoe does on a person. 
The demand for these, in my practice, has been such that I have 
made all sizes, using as patterns, horseshoes in sizes from 1 to 7. 
As an accommodating cobbler allowed me to do the sewing, 
these boots cost me less than 50 cents apiece. 
“ My next instrument is a steel cast made in halves which 
were successfully applied to the broken leg of an aged Holstein 
bull weighing 1,500 pounds (Fig. i-b, also Fig. 3-b). The frac¬ 
ture involved three of the bones of the knee joint and the large 
metacarpal bone at about its upper third. The stock was 3-32- 
inch bessemer sheet steel picked up in a junk pile. After being 
cut the margins were all beveled and the entire surface perforated 
like a sieve to permit ventilation. The larger front piece was 
bulged outward near the top and shaped to accommodate the bulk 
of the knee. The broken bones were replaced as well as possible, 
the leg was bound in cotton over which strips of canvas were 
wound. The cast was then applied and firmly fixed and tightened 
by strong straps. Subsequent swelling held all fractured bones 
firmly in place for 28 days. By that time union seemed complete. 
The bull has been used steadily for service since this treatment. 
“ The hernia clamp here needs no further comment, as a de¬ 
tailed report of same was printed in an earlier number of the 
American Veterinary Review, Figure i-c, also Figure 2-c. 
“ Sometimes an article offered to the profession by manufac¬ 
turers is unsuitable or fails to do the service required. Such was 
my experience with a dental punch which was too heavy, too 
softly tempered and persistently slipped off the tooth, because its 
serrated surface was convex instead of flat or concave. For less 
than the punch cost me I procured a length of drill steel, five- 
eighths-inch stock, and had made tempered to order a set consist¬ 
ing of one each of bayonet punch (Fig. 2-a), straight punch (Fig. 
2-b). straight chisel and angular chisel which serves admirably 
as a molar separtor and elevator Figure 2-d and c in¬ 
cluded herein is a regular blacksmith scratch awl I made while 
