~500 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
Delorme has recommended a method which consists in immobilizing: 
the joint with an immovable dressing. _Having mixed the white of ten 
eggs with thirty or sixty gramms of burnt alum, he impregnates three 
pads of oakum with it, and lays those all round the fetlock. A long 
‘roller is then applied over this, covered with the same sticking mixture, 
and rolled with a moderate pressure sufficient to obtain the immobiliza- 
tion of the joint. After a few hours, the bandage is dry; the joint, in 
good position, is reduced to most complete rest. Generally, after a 
week, recovery is obtained. In some thirty cases, Delorme was obliged 
to renew his dressing only in two heavy and lymphatic subjects; even 
with them recovery occurred, in two weeks. In a very serious case 
treated by Kopp, white lotion irrigations were made first and during 
the night ice round the joint. The fourth day, a bandage applied (150 
gramms of alum and white of six eggs); a week after, the horse had a 
free gait, and was very little lame in trotting. Many practitioners could 
record the good results they have obtained with this treatment or others 
similar. When the bandage is removed after a week or ten days, often 
the pain has subsided, the swelling almost gone; the joint has recovered 
its normal functions. And whether this bandage is applied immediately ° 
after the injury or some little time after, the results are excellent in 
most cases. Delorme relates the case of a mare which had been laid 
up for three weeks, the fetlock and tendon swollen, the rest of the foot 
very painful, the joint constantly flexed. He applied this dressing ; 
eight days after, all lameness had ceased; it was taken off and another 
placed instead, which remained six days more, after which the horse 
resumed work. In the presence of very severe inflammatory symptoms, 
a slightly compressive bandage will be applied and constant irrigation 
followed for a few days. According to the author, “the powerful reper- 
cussion’’ produced by the alum, the contention of the diseased joint, 
contribute equally to the success of the treatment. But it is certain 
that it is specially due to the close immobilization of the joint and the 
compression. A plastered apparatus would give the same results. 
Blisters and liniments have at all times been recommended. They 
-will act as revulsive, “and with such rapid effect in most cases, that 
the removal of the inflammatory exudate seems to take place as if the 
bloody fluid accumulated in the capillaries of the inflamed synovial had 
‘been drawn towards the skin and fixed in its network.”? By the in- 
flammation and the pain that they give rise to, they realize, like ban- 
dages, immobilization of the joint; it is in this way that they are effica- 
cious. 
Whether coolings, blistering applications or immobilization have been 
* Bouley: Dict. of Med. and Chir. Vet., Vol. V., p. 358. 
