190 INJURIES. 



Treatment of the Tumour. — The treatment must Be 

 conformable to the state of the case. The avoidance of 

 all repetition of the cause is indispensable. We must 

 then call to our aid those principles by which local in- 

 flammation is treated, and we shall obtain a clue to our mode 

 of procedure. In the case of tumour without fluctua- 

 tion, we give laxative medicine, and apply a blister; this 

 may tend to its resolution, and accomplish a cure. Unless 

 there existed much heat and tenderness in the swelling, I 

 should prefer this mode of treatment to the application of 

 discutient lotions. In a case of incipient poll-evil, it be- 

 comes an object to prevent the formation of abscess ; and I 

 know nothing so likely to effect this as the application of 

 blisters in combination with general evacuations ; we must, 

 however, take care not to push this practice to an imprudent 

 length. 



Supposing there to be a simple skin wound or excoria- 

 tion, as is not unfrequently the case in troop horses, 

 we ought to treat the sore in the simplest manner possible, 

 and give it every encouragement to cicatrize. Frequently, 

 however, the lodgment of pus upon it will cause a sinus. 

 Even then, we may succeed in healing this recent sinus 

 by some simple means, for I have often found toucliing 

 the lips and upper parts of it with lunar caustic an excel- 

 lent remedy. Should we not succeed in this way, then at 

 once lay it freely open with the knife, and treat the simple 

 wound in the mildest manner. 



•jTreatment of the Abscess. — When suppuration is 

 established, and fluid fluctuates under the fingers, we had 

 better give free egress to the pus. By suffering it to re- 

 main, the pus will burrow among the surrounding structures, 

 forming sinuses we shall find it difficult to eradicate. Some 

 practitioners will postpone the opening of the abscess to the 

 last extremity, in hope of producing absorption of the 



tenor bones of the cranium and the dura mater, and had so surrounded the 

 cerebellum, medulla oblongata, and top of the spinal marrow, as to isolate these 

 parts, at the same time that it compressed them on every side, and squeezed them 

 up into a heap. 



