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case and fasten the tapes in front. Now wrap the long loose end of the 
bandage upon the parts requiring pressure, having under it a pad of 
cchamois-skin, saturated with a half-ounce of arnica mixed with a half-pint 
of water. Keep the bandage wet with cold water. When the inflamma- 
tion has subsided, rub in a lotion of one ounce of rhus to a half-pint of water. 
The following are other methods of treatment, either of which may be 
used, though obviously two can not be used at the same time: (1). 
Moisten the hair with a tincture of acetum cantharidum, applied with a 
brush, then rub the part dry. Do not repeat this for several days, and use 
no fomentations after it. (2). A favorite remedy is one drachm of mercu- 
rius corrosivus and one ounce of spirits of wine, applied with a soft sponge, 
but not rubbed in. It may be repeated in ten days, if necessary. (3). 
‘One drachm of bin-iodide of mercury with one drachm of axunge may be 
rubbed in for a few minutes every day for ten days. Firing is usually 
cruel and unnecessary, but it not only removes lameness, but also prevents 
areturn. It may be used when all remedies fail to give a permanent cure. 
WIND GALLS OR PUFFS. 
Around or near the joints are little sacs supplying the tendons, which 
are composed of membrane much like the synovial, which secretes small 
‘quantities of an oily fluid. If the tendons be sprained or their action be 
much increased, nature increases the secretion and thus produces a soft, 
elastic tumor known as wind gall or puff. The cause is usually a sprain of 
the tendons, or excessive or long-continued friction of the joints from quick 
work on hard roads. Low, marshy pastures seem to produce a tendency 
to an enlargement much like that resulting from over-exertion. 
Symptoms.—Soft, elastic swellings near some joint, as the fetlock, hock 
or knee, generally the first, at the start as large as a small nut, but finally be- 
coming much larger, and growing harder; absence of inflammation and 
lameness. The swellings may occur among the tendons 
and ligaments on the interior part of the leg below the knee, 
a little below the front of the joint, or on the upper back 
part of the joint. These swellings do not contain wind, as 
once was believed, but an oily fluid, and generally cause no 
harm. Occasionally, however, the increase of the fluid may 
cause inflammation, which extends to the lining membranes 
of the sheath of the tendons, very tender, puffy swellings ap- 
pearing above the usual seat of wind galls; the inflammation 
thickens the membrane, and the fluid in the sacs changes from a straw-color 
and becomes suffused with blood; lymph may collect; the tumors become 
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