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between the third phalanx and the small sesamoid. Delafond obtained 
in two months the cure of an arthritis due to a nail in the foot. In the 
-case related by Courdouan, the lesions were of extreme severity. 
*t The weight of the hoof alone made the joint open two centimeters at 
least, and if we try to flex it laterally, it dilates so much that a stroke of 
bistouri at each commissure of the wound would separate entirely the 
hoof from the third phalanx; the little sesamoid is separated almost 
completely ; it holds only by one of its extremities.” Emollient baths 
-and alcohol dressings brought on ankylosis in a month without great de- 
formity. Delorme tells, without detail, that with a blister he obtained in 
‘twelve days the recovery of a very severe wound of the articulation of 
the two last phalanges. In Observation III. of Verrier, it was the case 
of a pedal arthritis which had occurred after the operation for nail in the 
foot. After vainly trying emollients, tincture of aloes, blisterings, injec- 
tions in the fistulas, the author used egyptiacunt, introduced some of it 
-as deep as possible with a probe; all the fistulas healed in fifteen days. In 
the case of Feelen, the articular borders of the second and third pha- 
langes could be felt with the finger, through a wound of the internal side 
-of the foot. Every day a pad of oakum covered with egyptiacum was 
-applied on the wound; in three weeks recovery was complete. Saudé, 
-after the operation for nail in the foot, with lesions of the navicular bone, 
had to treat an arthritis. The inferior wound was dressed with 
glycerine, alcohol was injected in the fistulas of the coronet; six weeks 
later, all lameness had disappeared, even in trotting. In a case of nail 
in the foot with fracture of the navicular bone, where Humbert re- 
-moved the bone, three weeks after, recovery wascertain. Sesamoidectomy 
-has been unsuccessful with Moller and all those who have tried it. 
Since the communication made before the Société Centrale de 
Médecine Vétérinaire in 1853 by Bouley, continued irrigation has been 
“the classical treatment of pedal arthritis, following necrosis of the anterior 
lateral ligament or an opening of the lateral cul-de-sac of the synovial. 
In. the paper of Trasbot (1877), there is a remarkable example of re- 
~covery: a horse, affected with quittor, complicated with necrosis of the 
-anterior lateral ligament and opening of the synovial, was submitted to 
irrigations three days after the operation; the wound cicatrized in 
‘ten days. Like many other veterinarians, we have obtained similar 
results. To insure the irrigation of the wound, it is often necessary 
to apply a drain. The superiority of continued irrigation upon the 
other means recommended before antisepsy is demonstrated by many 
facts. 
But for quiet animals, easy to dress, we prefer the disinfecting solu- 
“tions in baths, injections and with dressings. As we write this article, 
