24*2 SHOULDER LAMENESS. 



it grows. This, we repeat, will frequently be found to sweat the 

 skin without stirring the hair, and as such is, as a vesicatory, ex- 

 tremely valuable to us, and in particular in private practice. 



No trial of the horse, not even a run-out, can be permitted for 

 at least a fortnight after the application of the acetujii ; and then, 

 should amendment be still imperceptible or insufficiently apparent 

 to satisfy for what has been done, providing we see no reason to 

 alter our opinion in regard to the seat of lameness, a severe and 

 extensive blister had better be at once applied over the entire 

 point of the shoulder, and the animal kept tied up in the stall until 

 such time as it has worked off, or until the swelling in the limb 

 be such as to call for his removal into a loose box, where he must 

 remain for some weeks : time now being absolutely necessary for 

 the working-ofi' of the blister, and the carrying into effect those 

 changes which, in consequence of its application, we have reason 

 to believe are going on in the parts diseased, towards the righting 

 or restoring of them. 



The Actual Cautery is recommended by Professor De 

 Nanzio> of Naples, to be used after the same manner for shoulder 

 lameness as he has found it so effectual in hip-joint lameness (see 

 Veterinarian for 1837) ; which consists in making incisions 

 through the muscular and cellular tissue, after flaps of skin have 

 been dissected back, down to the diseased joint, to the immediate 

 coverings of which a budding iron, moderately heated, is to be 

 three or four times leniently applied. The flaps of skin are then 

 to be returned into their places, and simple or no dressings whatever 

 used to the wound. 



The Potential Cautery has likewise met with continental 

 advocacy. In the '' Transactions of the Royal Veterinary School 

 at Lyons for the Year 1840-1," published in The Veterinarian 

 for 1842, we are informed that — " Lameness of the scapulo-hume- 

 ral and coxo-femoral articulations have in numerous cases been 

 satisfactorily treated with chemical caustics. Fifty-three horses 

 have been submitted to the treatment, thirty-five for shoulder lame- 

 ness, and eighteen for hip-joint lameness. All have been cured 

 save three, out of which two had been a long time lame, and the 

 other's case was out of the ordinar}^ character. Either the bi- 



