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Excerpt from Wounds of Animals and Their Treatment Wounds of animals, at the time of their origin, do not differ to any extent from those of man; but the conditions under which animals live, combined with their natural opposition to human interference, necessitate a considerable modification of the treatment to be adopted. Fortunately, nowadays, the role played by Nature in the repair of wounded tissues is more nearly realized than in the past, and we, in common with our sister profession, have learnt that our earlier efforts may have been better in intention than in actual fact. In other words, we realize that we are unable by means of external applications to "heal" a wound; but that, having ascertained the method that Nature herself adopts to secure this end, we may assist her when circumstances arise which may delay or circumvent her object. Unfortunately, in animals, even were a wound known to be aseptic at its commencement, we should have no opportunity of maintaining this condition. Even with the best possible surroundings animals cannot be kept as clean as the average human being; their bedding and their stables or kennels are always infected, and so secondary infection is quite unavoidable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
