American Veterinary Review. 
MAY, 1901. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL, 
EUROPEAN CHRONICEES. 
Oxygenated Water. —Probably the use of oxygenated 
water in the dressing of infectious wounds has not found ex¬ 
tensive or even any application in veterinary practice. Its 
advantages are, however, very great, and many human surgeons 
have taken advantage of its properties. However, while these 
are quite important, the use of this water is not without incon¬ 
venience or even danger ; such as, for instance, the danger of 
explosion, the alteration of the parts of instruments made of 
rubber or of leather, which are used to apply it ; or, again, and 
this is most important, the great and long pain that patients 
endure by the irrigation. 
Besides all of these objections, which might be overlooked 
in veterinary surgery, there is another which a Corresponding 
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium, Mr. C. 
Moreau, has a tendency to consider as a great danger, not yet 
recognized, but which he says may put the life of a patient in 
danger. This objection has been the cause of sudden death in 
a patient, whose thigh had been amputated and in which the 
stump had a frightful secondary haemorrhage, eight days after 
the operation. Taking into consideration the destroying influ¬ 
ence of oxygenated water, the gentleman thought that per¬ 
haps the accident was due to that influence upon the catgut 
which had been used to ligate the large vessels and to the sub¬ 
sequent disorganization of the obliterating clots. 
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