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left. But if you wish to effect immediate union of the cut 

 parts, which should always be attempted when practicable, 

 suppuration is not to be promoted, and therefore cold lotions 

 are preferable. It requires great care and nicety so to 

 apply strips of plaster and bandages as to prevent the 

 swelling so often consequent on a bad broken knee, and 

 which blisters and stimulants nine times out of ten fail to 

 reduce. 



Farriers will tell you that the common adhesive plaster 

 will not do for a horse, and would fain induce you to use 

 slips of leather covered with pitch ; but where your plaster 

 perfectly encircles the wounded part, as the knee-joint, and 

 is cut sufficiently long, one end overlaps the other, and con- 

 sequently it adheres to itself. Where this is not the case 

 the hair will prevent it from sticking. 



Injlamviation of the Eye sometimes makes its appearance 

 suddenly, either from irritating substances, as hay, seeds, etc., 

 making their way into it, or from blows with a brush while 

 cleaning the head, or a rap with a stick from a brutal groom, 

 who is in the habit of striking a horse over the head while 

 riding him, and perhaps accidentally hits the eye by the 

 sudden shifting of the horse's head when he expects a blow 

 there. We have seen a very severe injury of the eye, where 

 it presented the appearance of a mass of blood, from this 

 very cause. 



In this case you must bleed from the vein running just 

 below the eye, and which is usually very easily distin- 

 guished, and give physic and bran mashes. Cold lotions of 

 goulard water are to be constantly applied to the eye, and 

 the stable to be darkened while the inflammation is ex- 

 cessive. When this is reduced, and the membrane of the eye 

 still remains clouded, you may inject night and morning 

 with a syringe a weak solution of nitrate of silver, begin- 

 ning with four grains to an ounce of distilled water, and 

 gradually increasing its strength as the eye appears to 

 improve under its application. A little speck will frequently 

 remain on the membrane, which cannot be removed. 

 Indeed, it is occasioned by the abrasion at the moment of 

 injury of this most delicate part. 



Greasy Heels you will have few opportunities of treating 

 if you follow the advice given under the head of Stable 

 Managevient They are most frequently occasioned by 

 washing the legs with cold water while they are heated 



