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of cold water. These flannel swabs should be applied 

 several times a day. 



If the bruise upon the knee is, on the other hand, 

 not a recent one, there will be no heat about the part 

 affected. 



The only signs, indeed, by which you will be able 

 to make sure, in this case, of the presence of the 

 malady, is by the appearance of a puffy kind of swell- 

 ing, or else by a process of induration (hardness) 

 taking place. 



The hair, also, may provide some evidence concern- 

 ing the age of the injury. 



Broken Knee.— Strictly speaking, the term 

 *'. broken knee" should only be used when the skin 

 of the knee is cut. It is commonly employed, how- 

 ever, even when nothing more serious than a mere 

 grazing of the skin has taken place. Cases of broken knee 

 (or knees) vary in their severity from that in which 

 there is nothing more the matter than a slight abrasion 

 to others m which the tendons and sheaths, the liga- 

 ments and the bones may all be involved in a common 

 injury. The knee of a horse is rarely broken without 

 sustaining a good deal of bruising as well. The 



