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used, it is good after ten or twelve days to resort to massage, with the 
hands smeared with a greasy substance; rubbing over the region from 
upwards downwards, or, better, from downwards .upwards, will scatter 
-over a wide surface the products exuded in the cellular tissue. Then 
the joint diminishes in size, the projections of the joint become more 
-distinct, locomotion is less stiff. Morning. and evening massage from 
five to ten minutes will be given, and the articulation enveloped with 
oakum, and a roller moderately tight. 
At ‘times some induration of the fetlock remains; the synovial re- 
mains dropsical or exostosis may develop on the altered epiphysis. In 
‘such cases line, fire, or needle-point cauterization is indicated. 
Knuckling is a frequent complication of old sprains of the fetlock. 
Ina three-year-old colt treated by Lardit, “the distension of the articu- 
Jar ligaments and of the extensor tendons was such, that at the moment 
the anterior foreleg, the one affected, came to stand, the anterior part of 
the fetlock touched the ground.” At the toe of the shoe of this horse 
was added a band, having the direction of the phalanges and which 
-at its superior end was widened, padded and adapted to the forepart of 
the fetlock. Already, on the first day, the animal was able to walk, 
even trot; he resumed work a little after. The orthosome of Brogniez 
anight be used. 
Old sprains of the fetlock are generally complicated with periostosis. 
Median or sciatic’ neurotomy must be resorted to, to remove or diminish 
the lameness they produce. 
In bovines, the therapeutics of sprained fetlock differs little from what 
“we have said.already. Recovery is rapid in most cases (Furlanetto). 
After cold lotions for twelve or fifteen hours, Cruzel uses blistering 
frictions. 
Peuch recommends round the fetlock, three frictions, one day apart, 
‘with the following: 
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Immobilization by bandage, massage, deserve attention also. Under 
-the name of Big-foot (pzed-gros) Festal has described a chronic sprain 
cof the fetlock of bovines. ‘The abnormal growth of the internal nail, 
pushing the fetlock outwards, produces, through the intermediate of 
1 Lardit: Journ. de Med. Vet. Theo. and Pract., 1833, p. 380. at 
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