The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 197
flesh when using carbolized oil, and it may be necessary
to touch the parts with nitrate of silver or lunar caustic
to consolidate the parts. This is a good omen ;
but
should this treatment not have the effect of setting up a
healthy condition, then it will be necessary to call in
the aid ot a practical veterinary surgeon, for in all
probability the bones of the neck are fractured, and as
these can only be successfully treated by a practical
man it is useless giving my readers the mode adopted.
The cord of the seton should be dressed every morning
with carbolized oil or corrosive sublimate half a
drachm, spirit of wine two ounces, but in most cases
carbolized oil is best. Setons are largely employed in
the management of domesticated animals in disease
and even in health. They consist of pieces of tape or
cord, which are carried for some distance under the
skin and allowed to remain in a considerable time to
keep the passage open for the draining away of some
morbid product, or to establish some curative or
prophylactic process by the local irritation which they
produce. The word seton is no doubt obtained from
the Latin seta, coarse hair or bristles, which were the
original agents for this purpose; at the present time
the material in common use is coarse tape varying
according to the requirements of the case or the whim
of the operator. It is introduced by means of an in-
strument called the seton needle, and is formed of
a Hat piece of steel varying from four to eight inches
in length. The one end has a square aperture or eye,
while the other end is flattened out at the edges which
join each other at an acute angle. The point is often