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Section VIII. 



WOUNDS AND INJURIES. 



WOUNDS AND INJTTRIES. 

 CAUSES OF WOUNDS AND INJURIES. 

 SYMPATHETIC PEYER. 

 TREATMENT OF WOUNDS. 

 BROKEN KNEES. 



CAPPED HOCK. 

 BRUISED HOCK. 

 OPEN JOINT, 

 FISTULOUS WITHERS. 

 TRAUMATIC OPTHALMIA. 



PEELIMINAEY EEMARKS. 



To fully treat upon "Wounds and Injuries it would be necessary 

 to describe a number of states and conditions both of a simple 

 and complicated character ; simple and complicated, inasmuch 

 as they are of every kind, grade, and degree, from a slight 

 swelling upon any part of the skin, caused perhaps by the 

 stroke of a whip, to the fracture of a limb, or the penetration 

 of the cavity of the chest by a large foreign body, such as a 

 bar of iron or the pole of a coach. 



In a treatise like the present I cannot enter into a minute 

 description of every kind of wound and form of injury to which 

 horses are subject, together with the treatment necessary to 

 pursue in every individual case. I shall, therefore, only describe 

 those wounds and injuries which are of the most common occur- 

 rence, together with those modes of treatment which I have 

 found the best in eifecting their cure. 



