As a moist dressing for wounds of long standing.
Garget.
Dry, scaly affections of hoofs and of the legs of poultry.
Open joint.
Injection for puncture wounds.
All chronic surface conditions in which the use of iodine ointments would not be practicable.
Aqueous Preparations of Iodine.
Although, from a chemical standpoint, the mixture of tincture of iodine with water would be considered wrong, I have found that the addition of one dram of tincture of iodine to a quart of sterile water makes a most satisfactory combination for use in veterinary practice for a number of diseased conditions.
In mal-odorous catarrhal diseases, a mixture such as this makes a fine wash.
In the treatment of foul-smelling ulcers and fistulous tracts, it should be used with an irrigator after the parts have been cleaned up and just before the usual dressing is applied.