APPENDIX. — WOUNDS Of VEINS. 357 



the fluid or synovia, and appear swelled or 

 puffed, constituting the disease termed wind- 

 galls. If these little bladders receive a wound, 

 it is generally followed by violent pain and 

 jnflammation ; and, when improperly treated^ 

 a very obstinate lameness may be the con- 

 sequence. In this case, nothing is more useful 

 than the sticking plaster, provided the lips of 

 the wound be neatly brought together before 

 it is applied; but if the wound be of the' 

 small i^unctured kind, the actual cautery 

 should be first applied. Great care however is 

 required in this case; for if the iron be not 

 applied very lightly, and it's pointed end 

 properly adapted to the size of the wound, 

 it mav do much mischief. Blisters are the 

 best remedies for any swelling, that may re- 

 main after a wound in the sheaths of tendouvs, 

 or in joints ; and if one blister be found in- 

 sufficient, a repetition of the remedy will 

 generally succeed. The last kind of wound 

 we have to describe is one that happens 

 more frequentlv than any other, and is more 

 easily cured; that is, a wound of a vein. 

 When a vein is properly opened, and after- 

 ward carefully closed in the usual way v.itii a 

 pin and a little tar, it almo^^t always heal< 

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