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saturated two small pledgets of cotton, one in each of the side 
openings. I then enveloped the foot in petroleum, placing cotton 
batting over it, covering the whole with a piece of sacking, and 
tying firmly below the fetlock joint. 
On the 15th of August visited the animal again. On remov¬ 
ing the dressings I was pleased to find the character of the dis¬ 
charge from the wounds changed, the discharge being white in 
color, and void of smell. The division of the side openings was 
gone, there being now but one opening, and that presenting a 
more healthy appearance. Dressed as before, injecting the cav¬ 
ity, by the principal opening at the heel, with full strength “ 01 
Eucalyptol E. Follis,” and putting a pledget of cotton saturated 
with “ Eucalyptol ” into the side opening ; then smearing the 
whole foot with petroleum and covering with cotton and sack as 
before, firmly tied. 
On the 17th visited the mare again, the owner telling me she 
was better. On examination I found his view correct. The 
wound was evidently healing fast. Dressed as before. 20th 
visited mare again, and found the discharge much lessened, the 
wounds healing rapidly; ‘no fetor. Dressed as before. 23d 
visited mare again. Found the foot about well. There was no 
lameness whatever, and I could not get a very small probe in 
either of the wounds, neither could I force any of the dressing 
into the foot with the syringe. I therefore dressed externally, 
wrapping the foot as before, and ordered the mare brought to 
my shop to have a shoe on in a day or two. 
On the 27th she was brought to my ofiice, a distance of three 
miles, the mare trotting along without effort and not at all lame. 
I showed the mare to Mr. Parsons, D.V.S., of this city, and 
I understand one of your pupils, and he expressed much surprise 
at the rapidity of the cure. I saw the animal again on the 17th 
of September. The cure is complete, and the foot but slightly 
disfigured. I do not believe that extirpation of the lateral carti¬ 
lage is at all necessary, except in extreme and very long standing 
cases. 
This medicine is a volatile etherial extract of the leaf of the 
Eucalyptas Globulus,” a gigantic tree of Australia. There are 
