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If resorted to for internal use, it may either be given alone or 

 in alternation vdth. Nux, or Aconite, or Arnica. Give it in 

 2-draclim doses of tlie 1st dilution, mixed with a little water. 



Aconite. — Aconite will frequently be found an excellent 

 remedy to apply externally, especially when the patient is 

 severely pained. Make a lotion of it as follows : — 



Aconite . . . . . . . . 1 ounce. 



"Water . . . . . . . . 1 pint. 



Mix the two together, and apply the lotion warm. 



roMENTATTONs. — Of Tomentations I have already treated: 

 for every particular with respect to their use, temperature of 

 the water, and so forth, see pages 155 and 156. 



BROKEN KNEES. 



Broken Knees is a common form of injury. Sometimes the 

 parts are injured so slightly as to be merely grazed ; in other 

 cases the joint is so injured as to render it an act of humanity 

 to destroy the animal forthwith. Injuries, however, of so 

 severe a character are not common : more frequently the skin 

 of the knee-joint is divided, and the sub-tissues are more or 

 less torn and lacerated. 



The accident of falling and bruising the knees is more 

 common in hot than during the cold months of the year. The 

 heat of the weather, the constant battering of the feet upon 

 heated, unyielding roads, together with the exhaustion expe- 

 rienced by horses which are over ridden or driven during the 

 summer season, are causes which sufficiently account for the 

 result in question. 



The most formidable injury of the knee is — where the joint 

 is opened and the bones are exposed, A reference to the 

 diagram (upon the following page,) of the structures of the 



