The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . the articula-tion. The fever anddebility increases,and if not arrestedthe animal dies. Treatment.—A neffort should first bemade to promote thehealing of the woundby first lips of thewound should b ebrought together bysutures. All foreignbodies, such as dirt,gravel, or detached tissue, should be removed. A thin paste ofspirit varnish and iodoform must be applied, being painted onin successive layers. Xext, place the animal in slings. Allother local applications should be with
The stock owner's adviser; the breeding, rearing, management, diseases and treatment of domestic animals . the articula-tion. The fever anddebility increases,and if not arrestedthe animal dies. Treatment.—A neffort should first bemade to promote thehealing of the woundby first lips of thewound should b ebrought together bysutures. All foreignbodies, such as dirt,gravel, or detached tissue, should be removed. A thin paste ofspirit varnish and iodoform must be applied, being painted onin successive layers. Xext, place the animal in slings. Allother local applications should be withheld. Give six drachms of aloes, to be followed at intervals of fourto six hours by half-ounce doses of tincture of opium or twentydrops of the tincture of aconite, and enemas of warm water willbe beneficial. If after the wound heals an inflammation stillexists, cold water should be applied in great abundance. If thisplan of treatment does not seem to succeed, a blister must beused. If inflammation has already established itself and pus hascommenced to form, the wound should not be plugged. If plug-. Fig. 3(3—Open Joint. 182 THE STOCK owners ADVISER. ged, tlie fluid would burst out at some other place. The woundshould be irrigated with a solution of corrosive sublimate, one tofive hundred parts of water, to destroy all germs that may havegained entrance, and bandaged. If the bandage causes no incon-venience, it should be allowed to remain until the wound warrants me in recommending a blister applied tothe whole surface of the joint. The coagulum of synovia whichaccumulates upon the wound should never be removed, as it pre-vents the admission of air and germs to the wound. If the pusis of a sanious or fetid character, the best results to be hopedfor is anchylosis, which renders the animal unfit for further cases of open joint require a long period of rest after thewound has healed, and it is eenerallv necessarv to blister re-peatedly, or even fire,
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