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REPORTS OF OASES. 
dressing for wounds left unbandaged, it is improved by the 
addition of calomel, which makes a very firm, hard scab. 
My treatment for most suppurating wounds is to irrigate 
thoroughly once daily, until the suppurative process is 
partially controlled, with one of the solutions previously 
mentioned, and follow each with an application of iodoform 
and calomel; the irrigation to cease entirely as soon as a 
scab can be induced to form over the surface. The powder 
should be applied two or three times daily when it can be 
conveniently done. This treatment has in my hands given 
the most excellent results. 
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To sum up, we may say that disinfectants are a valuable 
class of agents in veterinary practice ; that their use is varied, 
but especially indicated in operative surgery, in the prepara¬ 
tion for operations and the treatment of wounds ; that the 
benefit derived from their use depends largely upon the skill 
of the surgeon using them. With the increase of knowledge 
regarding diseases and their causes, the field for the use of 
antiseptics and disinfectants will also increase, and as their 
action and the proper way of application become better 
understood, better results will be more often obtained by 
their use. 
REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with hi'n. 
By recording his observations he adds to the knowledge of his profession , and assists 
by his facts in building up the solid edifice of pathological science .”— Veterinary 
Record. 
THE USE OF ACETANILID AND DIGITALIS COMBINED IN 
SPECIFIC FEVERS. 
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By Prof. Rosooe R. Bell, D.V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The subject of antipyretic medicines must of necessity be 
an inexhaustible one to active veterinary practitioners. 
Many febrile diseases of specific origin occurring in the 
soliped are characterized by such an extreme degree of 
pyrexia, as to be almost the sole indirect cause of dissolution ; 
