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surfaces that no toxic effects are observed. Kurophen is resin¬ 
ous and adheres to the wound or part to which applied, which 
is of great advantage in our practice, because of the liability of 
the dressings to become disturbed by our patients. The euro- 
phen adhering forms a protective covering as well as a medi- 
cant. It is light and spreads over a surface five times greater 
than the same amount of iodoform. Being non-toxic, there are 
none of those outward symptoms present which so often follow 
the application of many surgical dressings, especially in the dog 
and cat. It has but slight odor, which makes it preferable, 
especially in the treatment of house pets. As a surgical dress- 
ing, especially for the smaller animals, it has no superior. 
I prefer europhen to all other dusting powders as an appli¬ 
cation to the abdominal wound in ovarectomies. Sprinkled, or 
what is better, applied with a powder blower, to the orbital 
cavity, and upon gauze used to pack it after enucleation of the 
eye-ball in any of our animals, have always been followed 
by most satisfactory results. In ophthalmia, either simple or 
traumatic, simple leucoma, simple keratitis and wounds of the 
conjunctiva and cornea, europhen, gm. 4.00; lanolin, gm. 32.00, 
applied to eye or used alternately with astringents, etc., as indi¬ 
cated, will give pleasing results. For otitis externa, and other 
diseases of external auditory canal, a good application consists 
of europhen and boric acid, equal parts, applied with a blower 
after cleansing the parts. In abscesses, following the use of 
peroxide of hydrogen, the cavity can be sprinkled with euro- 
phen and packed with gauze. For wounds following surgical 
operations on fistulas, removing tumors, for the treatment of 
ulcerations, incised, contused, or lacerated wounds, abrasions of 
the nasal mucous membrane, europhen is an ideal dressing, pro¬ 
moting the formation of granulation tissue, allaying irritation 
and maintaining as nearly an aseptic state as is possible in our 
piactice; europhen, 1 part, olive oil, 7 parts, is a good applica¬ 
tion for burns and eruptive skin diseases of the horse and dog. 
