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THE MODERN SYSTEM 



part as convenient, but in these I have no faith. 

 Give bran mashes, or half bran and oats made 

 damp : if yon should have much difficulty in 

 giving the Horse the fever balls, 



Take Glauber salts - - 4 ounces. 

 Linseed meal - - 2 do. 

 Hot water - - - 1 quart. 



Mix well together for a drink, which repeat 

 morning and night : in mixing your meal with 

 the above, do so first in a bason with a little 

 cold water, it will prevent its clotting together. 



WOUNDS OF THE SHEATHS OF 

 TENDONS. 



Wounds of the sheaths of the tendons, both 

 behind and before, frequently occur during 

 hunting, staking, stubbing in coppices, or 

 from cuts or injuries from the stable-fork; 

 should any of these occur, so that the tendons 

 become wounded, it is attended with consi- 

 derable pain and inconvenience. For the 

 treatment of these accidents, it will differ 

 in no respect whatever from that laid down 

 in the description of wounds of joints. 



WOUNDS OF THE ARTERIES. 



The Veterinary practitioner ought to have 

 an intimate knowledge of the course of the 

 arteries, in case of performing operations, that 

 lie may avoid wounding them : there are 

 several methods of stopping the flow of blood, 

 which is apt to alarm the junior practitioner, 

 and by so doing occasions fear, and a nervous 

 feeling to come over him to the great detri- 

 ment of, and sometimes proving fatal to his 

 patient ; however, we would recommend him 

 at all times to be perfectly cool and collected ; 

 and, as observed before, make himself well 

 acquainted with the course of the arteries. 

 Bleeding from arteries are stopped generally 



by compression and astringents, by ligatiires, 

 by the actual and jwtentiul cautery, sometimes 

 by styptics, and not unfrequently, if the artery 

 be only wounded, to divide it altogether. 



It must be plain to every one who under- 

 stands the course of the circulation, that pres- 

 sure made on that part of a wounded artery, 

 which adjoins the wound towards the heart, 

 must check the effusion of blood. The current 

 of blood in the veins, running in the opposite 

 direction, requires the pressure to be applied 

 to that side of the wound which is most 

 remote from the heart ; as pressure is the most 

 rational means of impeding hemorrhage, so it 

 is the most effectual, and almost all the plans 

 employed for this purpose are only modifica- 

 tions of it. The ligature, the application of 

 a roller and compresses, only become useful 

 in the suppression of hemorrhage on the prin- 

 ciple of pressure, the cautery, caustics, and 

 styptics excepted. 



We have already remarked, that all the 

 best means of checking hemorrhage, operate 

 on the principle of pressure, the actual and 

 potential cautery, with some styptics excepted ; 

 the two first of which act by forming a slough, 

 which stops up the mouth of the vessels. 



Let us next consider the various modes of 

 pressure. The different things that have 

 been praised as infallible, would seldom or 

 never have succeeded without compression. 

 It was always requisite, even when caustics 

 were used, to employ compression, which were 

 bound on with sufficient tiohtness to resist the 

 impulse of the blood in the artery and the 

 premature separation of the eschar, occasioned 

 by the actual or potential cautery. 



When the blood does not issue from any 

 particular vessel, but from numerous small 

 ones, compression is preferable to the ligature. 



