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acet., water, Q. S.—an excellent escharotic. The Mendon doctor saw 
the horse several times while under my care, and expressed surprise at 
my continual blistering, he could not understand my object or what my 
reasons were for so doing. July 23d, the animal so far recovered as 
to turn him loose in pasture, I visited the animal fifteen times and 
made, under the circumstances, a very satisfactory case ; both legs are 
strong and not badly blemished, and the animal travels sound and 
well. 
With regard to foot wounds, if the nail or spike enters in the cen¬ 
tre of the sole, or frog, or nearly so, the wound is serious, and I believe 
should be treated on the same principles that I have laid down in 
this paper, that is, dress the wound with the tincture ferri, cover with 
dry cotton, the rest of the sole smear with slopping, and blister the 
coronet, repeating the blister often. I think, gentlemen, you will find 
if you look into this method of treating joint wounds, that you will 
come to the same conclusion I have, that the method as described in 
this paper of treating joint wounds is the true one. 
ENTERITIS RARE AS A PRIMARY DISEASE. 
By E. Mink, V. S. 
Read before the Rochester Veterinary Medical Association. 
-C JOQ - 
For the first few years of my practice I used to think I had many 
cases of primary inflammation of the bowels to contend with, as I 
usually diagnosed nearly all cases as enteritis in which there, was fre¬ 
quent pulse of fifty or more per minute, with hurried respirations, cold 
limbs, and injected mucous membranes, particularly when such cases 
resisted treatment for many hours. I am now satisfied that nearly or 
all such cases in which recovery took place were some form of func¬ 
tional derangement of the bowels other than inflammation. 
During twenty years of practice I have made many post-mortem 
examinations of subjects that had shown the general symptoms of en¬ 
teritis and died. In nearly all such cases where the conditions caused 
by inflammation existed, I found, on searching, some lesion that caused 
the inflammation, to wit, either rupture and strangulation, or twisting 
and strangulation. 
Uncomplicated cases of spasmodic colic, I think, I have treated 
with almost universal success by the use of aloes in purgative or aper- 
