552 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
The definite result of the treatment is most ordinarily a radical cure of 
the patients.’’! 
Rossignol has obtained good results with one simple slight application 
of trade sulphuric acid. 
According to various authors, the sudden arrest of the lochia, occur- 
ing in a cow well delivered, will occasion sometimes an arthro-synovitis 
of the hocks. This affection, already mentioned by Lecouturier, Deneu- 
bourg and cthers, would disappear in a few days. Furlanetto advises 
the salicylate of soda internally and frictions of warm oil on the hocks. 
The application on the loins of a sachet containing hot ashes will stim- 
ulate the return of the lochia. 
ITL.— Arthritis of New-Borns. 
Arthritis of young animals is an affection which occasions consider- 
able losses. Observed in all species, it affects particularly colts, calves, 
lambs and young pigs. Up to about the middle of this century, it 
killed about one-fifth of the suckling subjects (Lecoq). In the na- 
tional haras of Wurtemberg, out of 187 colts that died during a period 
of fifteen years, 85 were killed by this disease (Hering). Its frequency 
has diminished with the progress of the hygiene of stables and barns, 
but its mortality has not diminished in a sensible proportion; it reaches. 
yet 70 to 80 per 100 of the subjects affected. And most of those that 
survive remain with chronic swellings of the joints or synovial dropsies, 
with despairing tenacity; hence the axiom of Norman breeders, “ Lame 
colt, lost colt ” (Lecogq). 
In the majority of cases, pyohemic arthritis occurs in the few days. 
following birth. Out of 67 colts treated by Hering, 47 (70 per 100). 
died in the three first weeks of life. 
No joint is exempt from it, but the hock, knee, stifle, elbow, hip and 
shoulder, are those most commonly affected; it is, however, quite fre- 
quent on the fetlock, the coronet and the costal and intervertebral joints. 
The invasion is sudden. Ordinarily preceded by general symptoms, 
the articular tumefaction, warm, tense, painful, increases rapidly. Al- 
most always several articulations are affected simultaneously. Death 
may take place after twenty-four or forty-eight hours, but in general the 
march of the disease is not so rapid; sometimes the inflamed regions. 
open and give escape to purulent synovia. 
Few diseases have had an etiology and therapeutics so changeable $. 
few have given rise to so many erroneous conceptions. There have been 
successively accused: the change of regime imposed on the mother 
1 Pauleau: Rec. de Med. Vet., 1869, p. 435. 
