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EDITORIAL. 
The application of antisepsy is considered in European veteri¬ 
nary schools as thoroughly, we would dare to say, a? it is in 
cases of human surgery, and it has been recently our good for¬ 
tune to see its application at the clinics of Alfort, in a case of 
foot disease, and of deep needle firing by Prof. Cadiot. But of 
all those who, so far, have recorded the results obtained in vet¬ 
erinary surgery by antisepsy and of its possibilities in almost 
any operation, there are probably none who have done as much 
as Prof. Lanzillotti-Biionsanti, of the Royal Veterinary School 
We have already presented to the readers of the Review 
many incidents of the great clinic of Milan, whose records we 
have extracted from the Clinica Veterinaria, and our friends 
are already familiar with the results obtained. Lately Prof. 
Buonsanti has issued the results he has obtained in the treat¬ 
ment of that bug-bear affection, fistulous withers. It is true 
that following the rules laid out by many daring surgeons, viz. 
cutting freely down to the seat of the disease, removing all in¬ 
filtrated structures, scraping and curetting until all possibility 
of new necrosis, collection of pus or reformation of fistulous 
tracts be removed-thus far old surgery went, but the new 
demands resort to the antiseptic washing, the application 
of drainage tubes to permit the escape of pus and the anti¬ 
septic irrigations, and by appropriate suturing and dressing 
It IS possible to obtain cicatrization by first intention in from 
20 to 26 days, or six weeks at the longest. Such are the re¬ 
sults which old surgery but very seldom secured. 
Antisepsy is certamly put into practise in large establish¬ 
ments, probably 111 private hospitals, but we fear that individual 
practitioners, careless of the interests of their employers—of 
their own, in fact, and of the results they would obtain, neglect 
to apply It, and thus lose the benefit they would gain by it. 
A REAL VETERINARY ARMY SERVICE. 
“ Everything comes to those who wait,” is a somewhat dis¬ 
torted quotation of an axiom which has more often proven true 
