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reason of the movement of the long muscles of the 

 limb in going, repression should then be resorted 

 to with assiduity and skill. Artificial inflammation, 

 excited upon the skin and cellular membrane, near 

 the part, by means of blistering, or rowelling higher 

 up, has the good effect of drawing off the heat and 

 tension from the more important Joint,; nor does 

 the animal by this application undergoing so much 

 pain as he would were the tendon affected, whereby 

 the limb would become irremediably stiff and use- 

 less ; a disorder that is akin with another species of 

 stiff-joint, spoken of elsewhere as simple Anchylosis, 

 as will be found by consulting the Index. 



CRITICAL ABSCESS, 



Is that swelling or tumour which is occasionally 

 thrown out on the body or limbs from no apparent 

 accident, but what may be traced to that derange- 

 ment of the system we call fever, and is sometimes 

 attendant upon protracted inflammation of the liver, 

 when the disease appears on the fascia of the mus- 

 cles of the belly, on the jowl, or other glandulous 

 parts. 



The cause and the effect thus become manifest 

 together ; and when 'great tenderness is evinced 

 upon touching the parts, nothing more is required, 

 in ordinary cases, than to make an opening in the 

 lowest edge of the swelling, and expressing the 

 contents ; the cure is effected by means of the 

 common " digestive ointment," which is prescribed 



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