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WILLIAM HERBERT LOWE. 
The preventive treatment consists of two pads, one for 
each elbow. They fit around the arm and* up over the elbow, 
extending into the arm pit, and are kept in position by a strap 
which goes over the withers. It is a crude affair, and if per¬ 
fected would positively prevent shoe-boil. 
ROUTINE MANIPULATIONS AND OPERATIONS FROM 
THE STANDPOINT OF ASEPSIS AND ANTISEPSIS. 
By William Herbert Lowe, D. V. S., Paterson, N. J. 
Former United States Veterinary Officer of the Port of New York. 
Read before the 36th Annual Meettng of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 
It is certainly a very nice thing to treat a rare disease, or to 
perfoi m some unusual operation, but the success of the average 
veterinary practitioner depends far more, in my opinion, upon 
his personal adaptability, his power of observation, introspection, 
his methods, modus operandi, experience, judgment and dex¬ 
terity exercised in the routine manipulations and operations of 
his practice than in the occasional performance of some rare and 
unusual operation. Too much importance cannot be laid upon 
intelligent and thorough attention to method and detail in our 
every-day practice. The principles underlying all surgical pro¬ 
cedure are the same whether the case be the treatment of an 
ordinary wound or the performance of one of the more difficult 
and delicate operations known to veterinary science. 
Some people are always waiting for an opportunity to do some 
wonderful thing and let thousands of little matters go by that, 
taken advantage of, would have been productive of surprising 
results. Success comes to the great majority of people by being 
able and doing ordinary and common things well. The same 
is true of the surgeon. Compare the number of times you make 
an examination or dress an ordinary sore or wound to the num¬ 
ber of times you are called upon to perform one of the major 
suigical operations, and you will, I think, agree with me that 
the routine manipulations and operations are worthy of our 
consideration at this time and in this place. 
