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The knees are first thoroughly cleansed. Then the head is 

 racked up and the knees fomented night and day with a very 

 weak solution of tincture of arnica. At the expiration of a 

 few days, the horse is slung, and the wash changed for 

 Zinci Chlor., gr. j, to water, 3j. This last and the previous 

 lotion are not directly applied to the part, but a sponge 

 being saturated with either is squeezed dry upon the fore- 

 arm above the knee. The liquor then, by gravitation, Mh 

 upon the wound, and Mr. Mayhew states that in about a 

 month the cure is finished. He further mentions that there 

 are no unpleasant smells, no resistance, no swelling, and no 

 bad features perceptible during the progress of recovery. 

 Should this description prove correct, it will certainly realise 

 a blessing to horse-proprietors by divesting the worst acci- 

 dent of its terrors. 



WOUNDED TENDONS. 



Every now and then thorns, stubs, flints, kicks or treads 

 from other horses, wound the tendons of the leg. These 

 cases will, when taken in time and judiciously managed, 

 most commonly in the end do well. 



A PUNCTURED Tendon, or tendinous theca, will require 

 to be treated after the same manner as an open joint. The 

 cavity is synovial, and must consequently be sealed up with 

 all possible despatch ; and nothing will fulfil this object like 

 the application of the budding-iron. Inflammation must be 

 kept down by local and constitutional means. Let a linen 

 bandage be applied to the leg, and wetted with some cooling 

 lotion. Give the animal purgative medicine. Should it be 

 a flexor tendon, put on a high-heeled shoe ; on the other 

 hand, should it prove an extensor tendon, lower the heel 

 and lengthen the toe. Should fever arise, blood must be 

 abstracted. 



Wound from a Thorn. — In cases where a thorn, stub, 

 &c., has wounded the tendon, and the cause of injury still 

 remains in the part, we must foment or poultice, and use 

 every means to extract the foreign body. Should the forceps 

 prove unavailing, and the case be in a recent form, we should 



