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_ inconvenience to require too many assistants to apply it. They were 
not practicable. 
Irrigating apparatus have simplified the method. A reservoir, placed 
at 2.50m. from the ground, is fed with a watering pipe; at its bottom a 
metallic cork is adjusted, provided with a rubber tube, of various lengths, 
and 7 to 8 millimeters in diameter. According to the cases, the free 
nd of this tube is introduced in the wound, or its terminal extremity, 
perforated with holes made in its length, is twisted round the leg, above 
the diseased joint. The metallic cork may have two beaks and carry 
two tubes; one to go round the joint, the other in the cavity. An ap- 
paratusfor irrigation can be arranged anywhere by using a tub, a barrel-or 
areservoir adhoc. As with many practitioners, continued irrigation has 
given us remarkable results. We have seen an enormous articular wound 
of the left hind fetlock, made by a ploughshare, healed in a month. 
The wound and the synovial were irrigated with a tepid solution of 
cresyl, 3 p. 100; for a few hours the articulation was enveloped with 
antiseptic compresses, then submitted to a constant stream of cold 
water. In five weeks recovery was perfect. A mare treated by Mauri 
hhad a contused wound of the anterior face of the left fore fetlock, with 
open joint; after nine days the irrigation was stopped. “-The synovial 
flow had stopped, the articular fistula was closed, and the wound entirely 
covered with firm and healthy granulations.” 
About 1860, Aegyptiacum ointment, recommended by Verrier,’ became 
“the favorite drug.” In the treatment of articular wounds, this author 
used first bleeding, diets, poultices, emollients, soothing lotions. The 
pain reduced, he enlarged the fistula so as to be able to introduce his 
finger into it, and with it several times a day he pushed in it a certain 
- quantity of ointment, pure or diluted in oil. With this treatment, says 
Verrier, pains subside rapidly, standing improves, fistula contracts, syn- 
ovial flow becomes less abundant. Often after eight or ten days the 
fistula is cicatrized and the joint has recovered the complete freedom 
of its movements. Benjamin, Robert, Foelen, Royer, Salle, published 
good results obtained with it, and notwithstanding the failures of Raulet, 
Caussé, Barreau, Aégyptiacum is classified amongst the best remedies. 
Glycerine, used alone’ or with blisters,.and continued irrigauion has 
been recommended by Aureggio. Injected in the fistula, “it shortens 
the period of congestion and the articular inflammation ;” it has given 
a number of successes “in desperate cases.”* But many practitioners 
have failed to find in it a superiority over the preceding methods. 
Camphor, quite in use some time ago in the treatment of articular 
1 Verrier: Bullet. de la Soc. Cent. de Med. Vet., 1858, p. 1042. 
2 Aureggio: Bullet. de la Soc. Cent. de Med. Vet., 1878. p. 290. 
