Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![horses should be operated on under chloroform; in others, antesthesia is unnecessary, as the operation is not very painful/ After removing the first dressing, the hoof is washed with a dis- infectant, the wound freed from blood, again rinsed out, and another jute or tow tampon inserted. The dressing is similar to that employed after operation, and need not be renewed for eight to ten days, provided fever be not marked, or pain severe, and the covering show no signs of becoming saturated with discharge. The after-dressings are similar, though, as the granulations increase, and occupy more space, the quantity of carbolic tow or jute placed iinder the coronet should be diminished. It is of particular importance that granulation should start from the base of the wound. Under no circumstances should the lower portions of the coronet be allowed to come into contact with the upper part of the hoof before the entire space above is filled up, otherwise a space is left at the base of the wound which, in case of suppuration occurring, would retain the discharge. For a similar reason, the newly formed horn should be regularly trimmed away from the coronet. Excessive granulations around the coronet are removed by astringents or caustics. This treatment is continued until the defect appears completely filled up, and the coronary band is adherent throughout its entire length with the underlying tissues, i.e., until the space between the divided coronary baixl and its foundation is completely obliterated. A tar dressing is then . applied, the wound surface being smeared with tar, and a bandage saturated with the same material wound round the hoof. If pain be slight, a bar-shoe can be put on, and the horse sent to slow work. The time occupied up to this point is from three to six weeks, so that, as a rule, operation considerably shortens the duration of the disease. Siedamgrotzky performed eight operations last year, and his cases, on an average, occupied thirty-one days in healing. The popular idea that the operation renders horses useless for work on hard roads appears to me, after a large number of observations, to be without foundation. Many carriage-horses on which I have operated have recovered so perfectly that not the slightest trace of operation could be detected on examining the hoof; and the animals themselves have worked for years on the streets of Berlin. ^ English veterinarians will scarcely agree with this. Judging from my own observations in Gernianj', and also in France, there seems to be very considerable reluctance in giving chloroform, and a fear of serious consequences, which, in my opinion, are entirely unwarranted. —[Tkansl.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193986x_0722.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
