INFLAMMATION. 3i 



sometimes, indeed, I have seen cold applications 

 used with success, such as sal ammoniac dis- 

 solved in vinegar, goulard, ikc.'^ 



When inflammation takes place in tendinous 

 part5 or joints, tiie saturnine poultice has been 

 found an useful remedy, and in -the latter case 

 I have often found blisters extremely efficacious. 

 As in these cases the iaflammation generally 

 proves more troublesome, and as the pain which 

 it occasions is often so considerable as to pro- 

 duce symptomatic fever, it becomes necessary 

 to employ, without loss of time, the most 

 prompt and efficacious means for its reduction ; 

 with this view we excite rtr/Z^V/r// inflammation 

 in the contiguous skin and cellular membrane, 

 which are parts of far less importance in the 

 animal economy than joints or tendons, and 

 capable of bearing a considerable degree of in- 

 flammation, without much inconvenience to the 

 animal : this is done by means of rowels and 

 blisters, and the inflammation, thus excited, 

 will tend in a considerable desrree to diminish 

 that which is going on in the more important 

 part. Should we fail in our endeavours to 7^e- 

 sohe inflammation, it will probably terminate 



* Since writing the above, I have often employed cold reme- 

 dies, in local inflammation, \vilh great advantage. 



