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Title: The practical stock doctor: a reliable, common-sense ready-reference book for the farmer and stock owner ..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Waterman, George Arthur, ed Cornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine. Flower-Sprecher Veterinary Library. fmo
Subjects: Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Detroit, F. B. Dickerson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ippled,and all wounds would heal without complications. Ordinarily,wounds, abscesses, and sores, afford ideal conditions for thegrowth of germs, and unless carefully treated are swarming withthem. The office of antiseptics is to destroy these germs. Practically all antiseptics are poisonous if used in concen-trated form, and would burn and destroy the tissues, consequentlythey are used in such a strength as will destroy the bacterjawithout injuring the living cells of the body. To wounds, anti-septics are usually applied in solution, as in this form theypenetrate deeper into the wound, and their strength is easilyestimated; besides, they often possess other properties than asgermicides. They are applied as washes by saturating cotton orother material and placing in or on the wound, and by injecting it,in the case of deep wounds, with a syringe. In general it ismore satisfactory to use antiseptics freely and often withoutdisturbing the wound. If they do not prove satisfactory either 64
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GIVING A DRENCH.Set pages 70 and 366. DISEASES OF THE HORSE 65 increase strength or try a different antiseptic. Again, all anti-septics do not work equally well in all cases. In apparentlysimilar wounds the results will not be the same with one kind ofantiseptic—one will heal finely and the other make no progress.In unfavorable cases, change the antiseptic. Corrosive Sublimate, or Bichloride of Mercury, is probably theleading antiseptic. It comes in tablet form, with directions foramount of water in which to be dissolved. The principal objec-tion to this drug is its corrosive effect on metals, and the factthat it is a powerful poison. It should always be plainlylabeled, and kept where children cannot get to it. It is generallyused in the strength of i part Corrosive Sublimate to 1,000 partsof water (i drachm to 4 quarts) for external application. Carbolic Acid is one of the most frequently used antiseptics.It is dissolved in water, and used in strengths varying from 2%to 5 per cent.

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