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themfelves have proved fufficient for the cure. 

 In pun6lures of tendinous and ligamentary 

 parts, there is confiderable rifk of injury from 

 the cautery, more efpecially if in the hands of 

 fmiths, who arefufficiently inclined to the ufe of 

 the fire. One of thofe veterinary furgeons, who 

 have lately publifned, feems to have frightened 

 Iiimfelf fufficiently by the inflammation heraifed 

 with the cautery applied to a prick on the knee- 

 joint. I (houid apprehend that comprefs and 

 bandage would prevent the efcape of the fyno- 

 via, and that hot fomentations and poultices 

 would, as heretofore, prove eflFeftual remedies. 

 The fame m.ay be faid of fwelled necks, which 

 do not appear to be removed more quickly by 

 the cautery, although indeed it might be ex- 

 pefted. I do not write thus from the defire of 

 cavil, but of information ; and from real dif- 

 ficulties exiUing in my own mind on the fub- 

 jeft. 



Pro fefTor Coleman, in No. I. p. 5, Veterinary 

 Tranfaftions, obferves, " if a joint be opened, 

 the fynovia efcapes, the hard parts touch the 

 inflamed furface, and frequently occafion deadi, 

 or a ftiff joint. T/ie ufual remedies are, to rub 

 the fur rounding integuments xoith hot oils, and 

 blue vitriol; verdigreafe, corrojive fublimate, 

 Hind other caujlic applications are often intro- 

 duced into the cavity of the xoound, and into the 

 joiiit itfelfr The Profeifor, doubtlefs from in- 

 advertence 



