RADICAL OPERATION FOR BURSAL ENLARGEMENTS. 747 
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lowing daily with corrosive solution, 1/500 parts, dressing wound 
with marine lint saturated with listerine, parts being kept cold 
with wet bandages. This was continued for four weeks, at which 
time the wounds were entirely closed. I then followed with 
blisters of cantharides and biniodide of mercury, repeating every 
two weeks for six weeks. At the end of two months the horse 
was apparently in good shape and was returned home the last 
of January, 1886. He was immediately given road work and 
used for speeding on the ice. I received report from the owner 
during the spring that he showed no signs of returning trouble, 
that he intended to put him on the track f but the owner died 
shortly after this and the horse was lost sight of. 
No. 2, October, 1895. Was called to see gray gelding be¬ 
longing to D. Clapsidle. Previous history indicating enlarge¬ 
ment of fetlock, two years’ standiug. Said horse had met with 
an injury ten days prior to my visit, caused by a cut under the 
fetlock, opening the bursal sheath. Having been dressed and ban- 
daged, the cut had healed, though so distended and painful that 
I he could not rest his weight on the foot. I at once opened above 
fetlock on both sides, passing the seton through 'and dressing 
the parts with antiseptics and keeping cool as in previous case. 
The horse was given a box stall and yard to run in. Parts were 
dressed twice daily. Wound had closed at the end of three 
weeks, when a blister was applied. Two weeks later he was put 
at work on a heavy meat wagon, from which time he had not 
lost a day’s work until the fall of 1900, when he died from other 
causes. To all appearance this leg was as good as the other, 
and had never gone lame from the time of treatment. 
No. 3, brown gelding, was presented for treatment July 
14th, 1899, a t Minnesota State Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion meeting, held at Faribault. Subject was as near as possi¬ 
ble a duplicate of No. 2, excepting no wound, parts being pain¬ 
ful from distension of the sheath and bursae, resulting from a 
severe sprain. I advised operating, though the majority of the 
members thought differently. The owner coincided with me, 
and I assisted Dr. S. D. Brimhall in opening and putting seton 
