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proper consistency. Perfect rest is absolutely necessary, 

 and it will be found beneficial to place the horse in 

 slings, as seen in Fig. 27. If the injury is slight and 

 the animal is not very lame, it is still necessary to en- 

 join absolute rest, and not to allow any motion until 

 recovery is complete. Fomentations of hot water and 

 poultices with the application twice a day of HEARD'S 

 AMERICAN EMBROCATION will soon effect a cure in light 

 cases. 



A case which occured in my own practice will serve 

 to illustrate the necessity for rest. A horse fell in the 

 street and injured a fore-limb. I saw him two days 

 afterward and found him quite stiff and swollen in the 

 vicinity of the elbow joint. I ordered fomentations and 

 EMBROCATION, and at the end of five or six days the ani- 

 mal trotted out sound. The owner being anxious to 

 work the animal against my protest took him out 

 and worked him two days, and the third morning sent 

 for me. I found the horse much lamer than when I 

 saw him first. The treatment was repeated, but at the 

 end of three days was followed by the soft parts break- 

 ing away and leaving an open elbow joint. I immedi- 

 ately told the owner the case was hopeless. He then 

 sent for a professor, who now presides over a veterinary 

 college in New York, who said that the horse could be 

 cured if he was removed to his hospital. This was done 

 and the result was that at the end of three weeks the 

 horse was shot. We may always be sure that an in- 

 flammation of a joint which has much motion, is a very 

 serious matter. 



