432 CATTLE. 



osteum. Conium should be employed in the case of wounds result- 

 ing from compression or contusion ; and in the case of those which 

 are accompanied with luxation, rhus toxicodendron alternately with 

 arnica. When a wound has occasioned great loss of blood, china is 

 useful to combat the debility caused by the haemorrhage. The fever, 

 which is generally associated with wounds of a certain extent, yields 

 to arnica and aconifum, employed alternately. Extensive wounds 

 are never cured without suppuration ; this is generally set up five or 

 six days after the injury ; and as long as it wears a healthy character, 

 art should not interfere ; but if the pus be turbid and have a bad 

 smell, asafcetida and mercurius vivus should be employed ; if it be 

 thick and have a bad color, silicea ; if proud-flesh make its appear- 

 ance, chamomilla, sepia, and arsenicum, 



SPRAINS, 



Working oxen, and those that have been driven long journeys, are 

 liable to sprain, and particularly of the fetlock joint. The division 

 of the lower part of the cannon or shank-bone, in order that it may 

 articulate with the two pasterns into which the leg is divided, renders 

 this joint particularly weak and susceptible of injury. The treat- 

 ment consists of fomentation of the part, to which should succeed 

 bandages very gradually increasing in tightness, cold lotions, and 

 afterwards, if the deep-seated inflammation cannot otherwise be sub- 

 dued, stimulating applications, blistering, or, as the last resource, 

 firing. The inflammation attending sprain of this joint is often very 

 great, and enormous bony enlargement and anchylosis are not unfre- 

 quently seen. They embrace the fetlock-joint ; they frequently 

 include the pastern : but oftener, the inflammation and bony enlarge- 

 ment extend up the leg, and particularly the posterior part of it, 

 almost to knee ; for the division of the flexor tendons, in order to 

 reach both toes, takes place considerably above the fetlock (the pre- 

 cise place varying in different animals), and these, from the oblique 

 direction which they take, are peculiarly liable to strain, with proba- 

 bility of serious injury. The firing iron must be severely applied 

 before the mischief has proceeded to this extent. 



Homoeopathic treatment. — A sprain, when the result of a false step, 

 brings on lameness more or less perceptible, and, when it is severe, a 

 hot tumefaction in the neighborhood of the joint, • The accident, 

 when of recent date, promptly yields to arnica, employed both in- 

 ternally and externally. Otherwise, or if there be much pain from 

 the commencement, as also much swelling and lameness, rhus toxi- 

 codendron, and especially ruta, should be administered, which latter 

 remedy in such cases possesses specific virtues. 



DISEASES OF THE FEET. 



These are numerous and serious. The leg of tne ox is divided at 



