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an incision ivvolving the skin only^ and an enucleation, carefully 
avoiding all lesion of the tissue of the growth for fear of inocu¬ 
lating the field of operation’and cansing a return of the growth. 
It is also necessary to remove the glands immediately in front 
and behind the diseased one. The wound heals readily. For 
the author the surgical treatment, from the economical point of 
view, is preferable to that by iodides.— {^Annates de Med. Vet.) 
Direct Contention of Fractures in Domesticated 
Animats \By Mr. J. de LiiycJz \.—After a few remarks'upon 
the value of the means used in the treatment of fractures and 
their division into indirect and direct, basing his experiments 
on the result already obtained in human surgery, and on the 
innocnity of the presence of neutral and immobile foreign 
bodies in tissues, the author relates the result of four observa¬ 
tions, in which he had recourse in two cases to the application, 
on the external surface of the fragments of bone, brought in 
perfect adaptation, of two metallic splints, held in place by screws 
running through the bone from one splint to the other; in two 
other cases, he strengthened the adaptation and the position of 
the bone by placing into the medullary cavity a silver tube ex¬ 
tending into it above and below the seat of the fracture. With 
these last two cases Mr. de Lnyck applied only one metallic 
plate on the outside surface of the bone. The external wound 
was treated antiseptically. In the first case it was a cat, which 
two weeks after was able to rest on his leg and in four weeks 
was scarcely lame. The fourth case was an old, worn-out 
horse, in which one of the hind cannons had been experiment¬ 
ally broken. After some five weeks’ treatment he was de¬ 
stroyed. In the second and third experiments, he used dogs. 
With them, a silver tube had been introduced into the medullary 
canal of the bone and a single metallic plate screwed on one 
side of the external face of the bone. Both of these animals re¬ 
covered. B'rom the results of these two successful experiments 
the author concludes that (i) it is possible to have a foreign neu¬ 
tral and immovable body in the medullary canal of long bones ; 
(2) on the external face of the periosteum of those same bones ; 
(3) even in their thickness, and (4) that it is possible to open a 
direct communication between the medullary canal of long- 
bones and the outside atmosphere. He advises either of these 
means for large animals : (i) Two steel splints, of proper shape 
and size, applied on the periosteum and held solidly in place by 
four bolts, two for each fragment; (2) a cylinder, made of the 
form and size of the medullary cavity and one sns-periostic 
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