206 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
tiseptic injections can be thrown into the cavity. This treatment is 
followed by induration of the knee. Furlanetto, with the seton, applies 
a blister or a compressive figure 8 bandage over the knee. 
Fig. 59.—Hygroma of the Knee in a cow (from Stockfleth). The tumor 
measured 1m. 56 in. in circumference. It was of one year’s standing. It inter- 
fered with locomotion. When the foot rested on the ground it flattened 
down on its inferior surface. 
Needle cauterization has given good results in the case of horses. 
When the hygroma is indur- 
ated, deep firing, excision or ex- 
tirpation are necessary. In cat- 
tle, Saussol divided the tumor 
vertically with the bistoury, al- 
most entirely removed the yellow 
lardaceous mass which forms it, 
and cauterized it with the hot 
iron ; after a month the recovery 
was almost complete, but an ugly 
cicatrix was left. Serres made, on 
the most projecting portion of the 
tumor, two convergent curved in- 
cisions, bounding an elliptic flap 
of skin, which was excised with 
- ; a pe - the tumor. The whole of this 
g. 60.—Hygroma of the Knee partly 
ossified and covered with a horny was then removed as thoroughly 
growth (from Stockfleth). as possible, and a quilled suture 
dressing applied. ; 
With antisepsis more favorable results can be obtained, The technic 
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