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like forms; but like many other beautiful things to look at, it is 

 uot only useless but harmful; hence the object of treatment in 

 this disease is to allay the inflammation, prevent the exudation of 

 the fluid as much as possible, and to ensure that such as has 

 already exuded shall be taken up afresh and not allowed to 

 remain to become formed material, as one peculiarity of this dis- 

 ease is, that once established it is very difficult to get rid of; it 

 will continually recur on the slightest aggravation and each time 

 the consequences and results are apparent by the continual thick- 

 ening of the leg and the general enlargement of the limb; this 

 becomes most unsightly, interferes with the horse's action and 

 produces a chronic state of lameness. 



The constitutional symptoms, as the same are indicated by rise 

 in temperature, hurried pulse and respirations generally present 

 themselves at the same time as the swelling of the hind limb; the 

 appetite is usually very poor, but the desire for liquids is pro- 

 nounced; the horse will not infrequently point with his muzzle to 

 the affected parts as though he would direct attention to the seat 

 of pain. 



Treatment. — Aconite, jx. — As soon as the febrile condition 

 declares itself the remedy should be resorted to every two or three 

 hours, but cannot be expected to do more than reduce the tem- 

 perature and so prevent the aggravation of the inflammatory 

 condition; the digestive organs must be influenced by more direct 

 remedial measures. 



Belladonna, jx, may occasionally prove more useful in the 

 earlier stages than Aconite when the skin over the swollen parts of 

 the legs is very tense, bright red and shining. 



Hanianielis (■>. — In cases where the swelling is so intense that 

 the fluid exudes through the skin and is accompanied by some 

 blood; bearing in mind the close relation, anatomically, of veins 

 and lymph vessels, it is probable that this drug might prove 

 eminently successful in a large number of cases. 



/Ca/i Inc/iromician, JX, strongly recommended by the late Mr. 

 James Moore, M. R. Col., of London, both internally and locally 

 as a lotion; we have used this remedy in a large number of cases, 

 only, however, to be disappointed; nevertheless we feel that after 

 the experience of so practical a man as the late Mr. Moore, a 



