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On the Employment of a Three Per Cent. Formalin Solution
Three per Cent. Formalin Solution.
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In such cases owners have been advised to immunize their pigs by methods of inoculation about three months before they are expecting them to be ready for market. From information received from those who have put this ad vice into practice, it would appear that the adoption of preventive inoculation has given excellent results. As swine erysipelas is not a disease notification of which is required by Order of the Board, it sh.ould be borne in mind that a pig suffering from that disease may also be affected with swine fever, and that the Swine Fe~·er Order of 1908 requires that every person having in his possession or under his charge a pig affected with, or sus pected of, swine fever shall give notice to the police. In this connection atten tion is called to the" Notice to Pig Owners" issued by the Boud.
ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF A THREE PER CE NT ; FORMALIN SOLUTION. By VETERINARy·SURGEON
PAMPERIN.
IN a riding horse several hard lumps as big as peas formed, lying thickly together in the saddle neighbourhood, and eventually develop. ing into three nodes, each as big as half a pigeon's egg, I immediately tried to remove one of the lumps surgically. I found, however, that it was situated rather deeply in the subcutaneous connective tissue, so I desisted, and endeavoured to remove all three nodes with the abovementioned solution. The well-known deep effect of formalin induced me to try it. After shaving the hair away in the neighbourhood of the lumps and over them, and disinfecting, I made two incisions at right angles down to the roots of the nodes and divided them into two halves. After cessation of h
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597
In such cases owners have been advised to immunize their pigs by methods of inoculation about three months before they are expecting them to be ready for market. From information received from those who have put this ad vice into practice, it would appear that the adoption of preventive inoculation has given excellent results. As swine erysipelas is not a disease notification of which is required by Order of the Board, it sh.ould be borne in mind that a pig suffering from that disease may also be affected with swine fever, and that the Swine Fe~·er Order of 1908 requires that every person having in his possession or under his charge a pig affected with, or sus pected of, swine fever shall give notice to the police. In this connection atten tion is called to the" Notice to Pig Owners" issued by the Boud.
ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF A THREE PER CE NT ; FORMALIN SOLUTION. By VETERINARy·SURGEON
PAMPERIN.
IN a riding horse several hard lumps as big as peas formed, lying thickly together in the saddle neighbourhood, and eventually develop. ing into three nodes, each as big as half a pigeon's egg, I immediately tried to remove one of the lumps surgically. I found, however, that it was situated rather deeply in the subcutaneous connective tissue, so I desisted, and endeavoured to remove all three nodes with the abovementioned solution. The well-known deep effect of formalin induced me to try it. After shaving the hair away in the neighbourhood of the lumps and over them, and disinfecting, I made two incisions at right angles down to the roots of the nodes and divided them into two halves. After cessation of h
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