450 WOUNDS. 



With respect to concealing the after blemish, no power 

 of earth can make the hair grow on a scar. It is not skin, 

 and it cannot be covered with the appendage only to be 

 seen upon true skin. But the cicatrix will with time be- 

 come less. Often the wound, which on first healing ap- 

 pears rather large, in the course of three months will be all 

 but imperceptible. Any application of blisters, be they 

 mild or strong, can but increase the blemish it is their 

 intention to remove. Let the scar alone. If you have 

 thrown down a horse, no veterinary surgeon can assure he 

 shall afterwards stand upon perfect limbs. You must, 

 therefore, take the consequences without complaint, and be 

 grateful that you have, in the eflfects of time, some hope 

 left, when science has abandoned you. 



BROKEN KNEES WITHOUT PENETRATION OF THE ARTICULAR 



CAVITY. 



Occasionally we find that what, in popular language, has 

 been called broken knees, turns out to be a simple contu- 

 sion ; in which case tumefaction, heat, and tenderness 

 ensue, and which inattention, undue exercise, or heating 

 applications, may force into permanent thickening of the 

 part, with blemish and injury to the motion ; whereas a 

 little rest, with fomentation, will complete the cure. When 

 laceration has taken place without injury to the cavity of 

 the joint, the wound having been washed, bring the edges of 

 the integument as closely together as possible by strips of 

 adhesive plaister, as already directed ; or if the w^ound be 

 extensive, it would be well to sling the horse. A cure 

 by the first intention or adhesive process can only be hoped 

 for in this way. If heat and tumefaction come on, use the 

 lotion composed of arnica and water, of the strength di- 

 rected in the previous case ; and, after applying the arnica 

 and water night and day for forty-eight hours, if the 

 skin be broken, exchange the lotion for one composed of 

 chloride of zinc and water, which will be found in the suc- 

 ceeding paragraph to that which contains the fomentation 

 just referred to ; in this way a cure may often be esta- 

 blished, without injury to motion or blemish to the animal. 



