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on internal causes, require hryonia, chiefly in cases of cold, or china 

 and arsenicum alternately, or sulphur, or mercurius vivus. 



Aurum and belladonna are the principal remedies for tumors on 

 the head ; baryta carbonica for those on the lower jaw. With respect 

 to tumors on the chest, aconitum and bryonia are suitable, if they 

 are owing to cold ; arnica, if they are the consequence of compres- 

 sion. When they are covered with scabs, thuja should be given, and, 

 after some days, sulphur. 



ULCERS ABOUT THE JOINTS. 



These tumors sometimes assume very much the appearance of 

 farcy in the horse. They run in lines, they follow the apparent course 

 of the veins, but they belong to the absorbents. They frequently 

 ulcerate — the ^vounds are painful, deep, and spreading. 



The dilute solution of the chloride of lime will form the best 

 application, and will usually be successful ; especially if occasionally 

 aided by some caustic wash, as a solution of blue vitriol, or dilute 

 nitric acid. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — In ulcers which suppurate, the principal 

 means are : arsenicum, internally and externally, if the edges are 

 painful, everted, inflamed, with unhealthy pus ; silicea, if the pus is 

 thick and of a bad color ; chamomilla, sepia, and antimonium, when 

 proud flesh becomes developed on it. Pulsatilla possesses specific 

 virtues in the case of fistulous ulcers. The following substances as 

 intercurrent remedies : ledum palustre, when the fistulas have an 

 opening sufficiently large, and the bottom is white and lardaceous 

 calcarea carbonica, a capital remedy in all forms of fistulae ; lycopo- 

 dium, when the orifice is small and there are numerous burrows ; 

 these remedies are interposed when the repeated doses of pulsatilla 

 no longer bring about improvement, and about four days after we 

 should recur to the latter. Occasionally it is necessary to employ, in 

 addition, several intercurrent remedies. 



OPENED JOINTS. 



These sometimes occur from the injudicious lancing of the first 

 kind of tumor, but oftener from accident. The principle of the treat- 

 ment of open joints is to close the orifice as soon as possible, and be- 

 fore the secretiQn of the joint oil is stopped, and the cartilages of the 

 opposing bones rub on each other, and the delicate membrane which 

 hnes these oartilages becomes inflamed, and the animal suflPers ex- 

 treme torture, and a degree of fever ensues by which he is speedily 

 destroyed. The w^ound is best closed by means of the firing iron. 



Homctopathic treatment. — Wounds of "small extent are cured in a 

 very little time by the use of arnica externally. In such as are 

 deeper, arnica must be administered internally also. Symphytum is 

 useful whenever there has been any lesion of the bones or peri- 



