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ineffecLualiy twice or three times. AMiei- 

 inflammation takes place in the joint, the most 

 powerful remedies should be expeditiously 

 employed for it's removal, such as bleeding 

 and purging. Fomentations and poultices in 

 such cases are not so useful as blisters, which 

 should be applied rather extensively about 

 the joint; but as long as the wound in the 

 joint remains open, the iuBammution will con- 

 tinue; therefore our principal object should 

 be to close the wound. There is no external 

 complaint which occasions such excruciating 

 pain to the animal as inflammation of a 

 joint, particularly when it has proceeded so 

 far as to ulcerate the bones ; several cases of 

 which have come under my observation. 



Wounds of the Sheaths, or Membranes 

 surrounding Te)idons. 

 These require nearly a similar treatment 

 to that we have just described, and, when of 

 the small punctured kind, are more expe- 

 ditiously healed by a judicious use of the 

 actual cauterv, than by any other remedy. 

 These wounds also generally discharge some- 

 thing like synovia or joint oil, and, if suffered 



