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immobility.’* Three padded splints can be applied, extending from 
the middle of the forearm to that of the cannon, being held in place by 
‘dextrined rollers or straps with buckles. A blister upon the lateral face 
-of the hock is also a simple and useful means of immobilization. 
When suppurative inflammation has invaded the articular synovial, 
‘the “ game must not be considered as lost,” as Barreau did, although 
‘the prognosis is most serious. Instead of any of the treatments pro- 
posed, antisepsis and blisterings will be preferred. Subjects of little 
‘value should be destroyed. 
Sometimes the knee remains large, wrinkled, and a lameness remains, 
varying in its severity: cauterization must be used or median neuro- 
‘tomy. 
LV.—Femoro-Tibio-Patellar Joint. 
Deep wounds of this articulation are common. According to Rey, 
they are the most frequent of all articular wounds observed among 
-solipeds ; they are also theleast serious. ‘Treated early, when the synovia 
is not yet purulent or the infection of the synovial is neither diffused or 
-deep, they ordinarily close rapidly. Often a blister has been sufficient 
to obtain a recovery, as shown by the observations of Tisserant, Delorme 
and Rey. Out of twenty horses treated by Rey, eighteen were cured 
by blister and one by sublimate ; only one died. And yet the symptoms 
seemed at times very serious. The mare of Observation II had re- 
-ceived, eight days before, a kick on the external face of the thigh; a 
large swelling had formed, which had been punctured. When Rey saw 
the patient, the articulation was hot, painful, the swelling extended down 
‘to the hock, the synovial discharge was abundant. Two frictions of 
‘blisters were made, twenty-four hours apart ; after nine days the mare was 
-entirely cured. In the Observation III, it was a mare injured two weeks 
‘previously: a kick had opened the femoro-patellar joint. A blister 
having failed, a trochiscus of sublimate corrosive was introduced into 
‘the fistula; eight days later, it was obliterated. Superficial cauteriza- 
‘tion of the wound (Dubois), tannin (Caussé), have also obtained cures. 
Many successes have been related by the use of continued cold water 
irrigation. Let us mention specially those of Sepulchre, Barreau, Eloire. 
“The observation of this last author is that of a horse that had fallen in 
going down a stiff hill and had been dragged by the vehicle. The stifle 
presented a wound large enough to admit the fist. “ It left exposed on 
the right the internal vastus, which has received the shock almost alone ; : 
on the left, the tendon of insertion of the long abductor of the leg, some 
1 Mercier, Rec. de Med. Vét., 1840, p. 461. 
