six per cent
are fatal. Among the fatal cases are the open joints with
complications as severed tendons, those occasioned by calk wounds
in horses that are stabled, and nail punctures of the feet. The
following report of twelve favorable cases is taken from a record
of sixty-two cases. The favorable ones are reported, chiefly
because there are now enough reports on record of such cases which
have terminated fatally.

Case 1.--A gray gelding used as a saddle pony received a
horizontal wire cut laying completely bare the scapulohumeral
articulation. The margins of the wound were cleansed as heretofore
described, a drainage was provided surgically, tincture of iodin
was injected and the wound was covered with equal parts of boric
acid and exsiccated alum. The horse was kept tied and a diluted
tincture of iodin was injected into the wound once daily and the
powder applied often enough to keep the wound covered. The case
made a complete recovery and the pony was again in service within
sixty days.

Case 2.--A twelve-hundred-pound bay mare with an open carpal
joint. The wound was an open one about two and one-half inches in
length, and made transversely and when the member was flexed the
articular surface of the carpal bones were presented to view. An
ounce of tincture of iodin was injected into this joint after
having cleansed the margin of the wound and the mare was cross-tied
in a single stall to keep her from lying down. The owner was
instructed to keep the outside of the wound powdered with air
slaked lime and a very unfavorable prognosis was given.

I heard nothing further from this case until fifty-nine days from
the date of the injury, when I met the owner driving this mare to a
buggy. The wound had healed by first intention and at that time so
little cicatrix remained that it was difficult to find it.

Case 3.--A brown mare with an open fetlock joint due to a
spike-nail puncture. Lameness was excessive, and joint greatly
swollen. Tincture of iodin was injected into the wound and towels
dipped in hot antiseptic solutions were applied for several hours
daily until the acute stage had passed. Later the mare was turned
out to pasture and a vesicant was applied once or twice a month
until recovery was complete which was in about six mon