favorably though slowly. On 21st October the posterior wound quite healed"; that in front of the thigh, quite a superficial healing nicer, now healed. Poultices, carbolic oil, and sulphate of zinc were the applications used. Cask III.?Baldeo Singh, Rajput, aged 30, on evening of 22nd September, was brought in mauled by a wounded tiger. On front of left shoulder was a deep flesh wound, and on the back of the shoulder a superficial lacei-ated wound 2? inches by 1 inch. There were three fang wounds in left flank; one in front, large enough to have admitted two fingers at least, penetrating into the abdomen, and showing congested bowel not extruded nor abraded ; two wounds behind led down to the abdominal cavity, but did not injure the bowel. A good deal of sanious serum issued from these wounds. He had also one or two slight wounds over the ribs. Pulse 112, rather hard and small; pain in abdomen increased by a deep breath : carbolic acid applied. Fomentations to the belly. Tongue foul; gr. iij of calomel, with gr. i of opium, the opium to be repeated every three hours. Symptoms of local peritonitis passed off under the use of opium and fomentations. He had an attack of bronchitis, which was embarrassing from the tendency of the bowel to protrude, and was met by using compresses secured with plaster upon the edges of the anterior wound. Sloughs separated in the tracks of the wounds under the use of poultices Under cotton-wool dipped in carbolic oil the wounds rapidly filled up ; the man is now able to walk about, and there only remains unhealed a superficial wound on front of the abdomen, which is granulating healthily. Note.?There is little to remark of these cases except the was

small constitutional disturbance.

Ulwau, 1st November, 1872. THREE CASES OF TIGER WOUND.

By

K. M. Downie, M.B., Agency Surgeon, Ulwar.

Case I.?Sowar Bhart Singh, aged 26, Rajput, on 9th August, while acting as a beater, was attacked by a wounded tigress. His matchlock missed fire; he struck one blow on the head with his talwar, and was then knocked down. One of the officers with ?whom he had gone out, shot the tigress through the head while she was standing over the sowar. He was carried in 15 miles, and I saw him at 10 o'clock p.m. There were about a dozen tooth-wounds in the left forearm, without fracture, one apparently penetrating into the wrist joint from behind. Cold to be constantly applied. He had a scalp wound f inch in length inch long from the near the vertex; and a claw wound about inner part of the left eyebrow skirting the orbit. Ordered three stitches of fine silver wire, and cold. There was a compound fracture of the radius and ulna just below the left elbow ; there seemed no hope of saving the limb, but a3 no operative appliances were at hand, and the man was much exhausted by his journey, it was deemed right to wait till morning. The arm was secured with loops to a padded back splint, and cold water applied ; gr. i. opium was given, to bp repeated, if necessary. lie passed a tolerably easy night, and at 6 a.m. on the 10th, there was a good deal of inflammatory swelling; radius and ulna fr actured ; the ulna felt bare for about 3 inches; great effusion of blood and disorganization of soft tissues. In addition to several deep tooth-wounds at and near the fracture, there were two or three above the elbow with much bruising, inflammatory swelling, and empysematous crepitation. To avoid sloughing of flaps, amputation was performed above these, though the humerus was uninjured. This was done under chloroform by a long outer and short inner flap, so as to avoid the highest fang wound ; almost no blood was lost: after-treatment consisted of carbolic oil, a spirituous lotion of acetate of lead being applied over the whole stump, morphia, and regulation of the bowels. He never had a bad symptom, and almost no 85'mptomatic fever. The brachial ligature oaine away on the 16th day. By 1st September the stump was healed, except a small piece at inner angle, connected with a bare corner of bone ; a small exfoliation was felt loose, and removed on 23rd October, and the wound is now quite healed. Case II.?Narain, camel-driver, aged 22, brought in on 8th September. Had been attacked by a tiger two days before. Had a deep wound in the right buttock, just behind the upper part of the great trochanter, about 3 inches in depth, obliquely upwards; n flesh wound on outer front of thigh, about 4 inches long and inches broad, the femoral fascia exposed and sloughing; and His recovery one or two slight flesh wounds on the buttock. was retarded by a bad,attack of diarrhoea, dysenteric in character, for a few days, and occasional fever. The woun4s progressed

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