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camphor, alcoholic frictions, warm fomentations, blisters, setons, etc. 

 But unless the conclusions of experience are to be ignored, my own 

 judgment is decisive in favor of rest, judiciously applied; and my 

 view of what constitutes a judicious application of rest has been more 

 than once presented in these pages. There are degrees of this rest. 

 One contemplates simple immobility in a narrow stall. Another 

 means the enforced mobility of the slings and a narrow stall as well. 

 Another a box stall, with ample latitude as to posture and space, and 

 option to stand up or lie down. As wide as this range may appear to 

 be, radical recoverj'^ has occurred under all of these modified forms of 

 letting our patients alone. 



HIP LAMENESS. 



The etiology of injuries and diseases of the hip is one and the same 

 with that of the shoulder. The same causes operate and the same 

 results follow. The only essential change, with an important excep- 

 tion, which would be necessary in passing from one region to the 

 other in a description of its anatomy, its physiology, and its pathol- 

 ogy, would be a substitution of anatomical names in reference to 

 certain bones, articulations, muscles, ligaments, and membranes con- 

 cerned in the injuries and diseases described. It would be only a use- 

 less repetition to cover again the ground over which we have so 

 recently passed in recital of the manner in which certain forms of 

 external violence (falls, blows, kicks, etc.) result in other certain 

 forms of lesion (luxation, fracture, periostitis, ostitis, etc.), and to 

 recapitulate the items of treatment and the names of the medicaments 

 proper to use. The same rules of diagnosis and the same indications 

 and prognosis are applicable equally to every portion of the organ- 

 ism, with only such modifications in applying dressings and appa- 

 ratus as may be required by differences of conformation and other 

 minor circumstances, which must suggest themselves to the judgment 

 of every experienced observer when the occasion arrives for its 

 exercise. 



There is an exception to be made, while considering the subject in 

 connection with the region now under advisement, in respect to the 

 formidable affection known as morbus coxarius, or hip- joint disease; 

 and leaving the detail of other lesions to take their place under other 

 heads, that relating to the shoulder, for instance, we turn to the hip 

 joint and its ailments as the chief subject of our present consid- 

 eration. 



Symptoms. — In investigating for morbus coxarius, let the ob- 

 server first examine the lame animal by scanning critically the out- 

 lines of the joint and the region adjacent for any difference of size 

 or disturbance of symmetry in the parts, any prominence or rotundity, 

 and on both sides. The lame side will probably be warmer, more 

 developed and fuller, both to the touch and to the eye. Let him then 

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