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tases having ocenrred, the practice is now discontinued. Among 
the many fatal cases recorded I sclect the following, which has 
been recorded in the “ Veterinarian,” by W. A. WHEATLEY, V.S.:; 
“The subject was a five-year old cart-horse, the property of the 
South-eastern Railway Company, admitted on the 1st of Sentem- 
ber, 1855, with an immense thorough-pin on the off hock. The 
anima! being then in a very high condition, a support shoe was 
placed on the foot of the diseased limb, and the frequent applica- 
tion of cold water to the diseased parts resorted to, the diet being 
restricted to mashes. 
October 6.—The horse was considered in a fit state for the op- 
eration. Accordingly, I had the anima! secured by a side line, and 
first punctured the enlargement with the exploring-needle, in four 
different places; but, as the imprisoned fluid did not escape so 
readily as I expected, I determined upon opening the part with 
the lancet, which being done, the fluid escaped to the amount of a 
small tea-cupful. It was of a thin consistence, and of a pale straw 
color. I then applied bandages dipped in cold water, and kept 
the hock constantly wet. 
October 7.—The swelling had very slightly returned. I gave 
some aperient medicine, and continued the bandages with cold 
water, and applied a suitable truss to the hock. 
I need not give a report of the case from day to day. Suffice 
it to say that the cold water and the truss were continued in use, 
and the animal never manifested the least inconvenience from the 
operation. 
November 21.—He was considered cured, not the least appear- 
ance of the enlargemert being left. 
November 29.—On this day the horse was attacked with abdom- 
inal obstruction, and, despite all our remedial measures, consisting 
of active purgatives, as solution of aloes, calomel, oleum lini et 
erotoni. with the frequent use of medicated enemata, counter- 
irritants, etc., he continued to grow worse till the 1st of December, 
when death took place. This was the fourth attack of this kind 
that the animal had experienced while under treatment for the dis- 
eased hock.” 
The danger to be apprehended in cases where au opening 1s 
made by the lancet arises from the liability to synovitis, (inflamma- 
tion of the synovial 1nembrane,) which reacts sympathetica ly on 
rhe system, producing derangement « f some of the organs 03 ‘++ 
