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dons, tendon sheaths, joints, bones, glands and udder (milking). 

 Massage should not be applied too early in fresh distortions of the 

 joints and in acute periostitis (only after several days' treatment), 

 d. Chronic inflammatory thickenings and indurations in the 

 organs mentioned in paragraph 3, splints, galls, ulcers, badly 

 granulating wounds, stiffness and weakness of the limbs in old 

 horses and after hard work. 



5. Muscular rheumatism, muscular paralysis, muscular atrophy 

 and muscular cramp. 



6. Paralysis of peripheral, motor and sensory nerves, spinal 

 and cerebral paralytic conditions. 



7. Chronic inflammation of the cornea (leucoma); oedema of 

 the eyelids. 



8. Colic, constipation, tympanites, paresis of the rumen, atony 

 of the gastric and intestinal musculature. 



9. Febrile general diseases, inflammation of internal organs, 

 obesity, diabetes, anaemia (Weir Mitchell's method), cardiac 

 failure (Oertel's method). 



10. In healthy animals, massage in the form of training and 

 rubbing down after exercise is an important factor in maintaining 

 health, especially in horses. 



Contraindications. — Since massage promotes the resorption of 

 the products of inflammation (fibrin, sermn, blood), it can be 

 employed only in simple, non-septic inflammations. In all cases 

 in which septic material is present in the area of inflammation, 

 especially the bacteria of septicsemia and pyaemia, massage must 

 be omitted, otherwise a general infection of the body will result 

 from the resorption of the infectious material. Massage is espe- 

 cially contraindicated in phlegmona, abscesses, septic mastitis, 

 metastatic tendovaginitis (contagious pneumonia of horses), ery- 

 sipelatous swellings (influenza), malignant oedema, black leg, all 

 purulent, sanious and septic inflammatory conditions in general 

 and in fresh keratitis. 



Massage is to be avoided particularly in phlebitis, lymphan- 

 gitis and purulent lymphadenitis, because here the danger of a 



