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methods of .preventing curling after trimming the ears of dogs, 
etc., ad infinitum. —(E. A. M.) 
The number of chemical antiseptics used in wound treat¬ 
ment should not be numerous. Better to learn the true worth 
and the proper use of one or two drugs than to use many differ¬ 
ent ones indiscriminately. The liberal use of soap, water and 
a scrubbing brush on the patient and hands, and intelligent 
sterilization of the instruments means more to the educated sur¬ 
geon than all the antiseptic chemical substances in the pharma¬ 
copoeia.—(L. A. M.) 
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FRENCH REVIEW. 
Enormous Inflammatory Growths of the Extremi¬ 
ties after Accidentae Wounds [By Prof. A. Labat ].— 
Some wounds, especially those of the extremities, when they 
are neglected and secondarily infected, have a marked ten¬ 
dency to granulate, and the granulating of these wounds may 
assume enormous proportions. Among many cases that he has 
observed, the author recalls three principal ones—one which 
was not treated for reasons of economy and two that recovered. 
In the first the wound formed two tumors, one in front and the 
other on the outside and back of the leg. It resulted from an ap¬ 
plication of bichromate of potassium ointment a few days after 
firing of the tendons of the left hind fetlock. In the second, a mare 
fired with points on the tendons of her swollen hind legs, which 
she rubbed and tore with her teeth. The granulating mass 
which followed on the right leg, occupied the posterior border 
of the leg, firmly attached to the tendon by a wide base extend¬ 
ing from the hock to the fetlock and spreading on both lateral 
surfaces. After it was removed the whole mass weighed 6 
kilog., 500 gr. (13 pounds). I11 the third case, a horse, being 
frightened by an automobile, was thrown, badly burned with 
the oil of the lighted lamp of the wagon which he was pulling 
and seriously wounded on the right leg. Some of the burns 
healed well but others did not, and with the wound of the leg 
resulted a fearful granulating wound on the front of the cannon, 
which had its base spreading over the anterior and lateral face 
of the metatarsus, from the hock down to the fetlock, which it 
overlapped. When removed the mass weighed 7 kilog. (14 
