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If it should penetrate through a muscle, it may 

 be better to pais a seton through it, than to expose 



it to the air. 



If it becomes fistulous, it must be treated like 

 pay other fistulous sore. 



Wounds of the Joints, 



WOUNDS, if not penetrating the cavity of the 

 joint, should be treated like any other simple 

 wound, keeping the inflammation as much under 

 as pofsible. 



If penetrating the cavity, they cannot be better 

 elucidated, than by describing a recent dangerous 

 QdiQf which terminated succefsfully. 



CASE. 



< c About the latter end of May, 1799, a horse 

 belonging to the Hampshire Fencible Light Dra- 

 goons, Colonel Thomas Cooper Everitt commander, 

 unfortunately got one of his fore-feet over the 

 chain in the stall, and being of a very irritable dis- 

 position, was very much injured, in attempting to 

 extricate himself. Being informed that the horse 

 was very lame, I went to see him ; and, upon exa- 



