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certain circumstances pain is decreased. In addition, exercise 

 operates as a prophylactic against haemoglobinaemia [azoturia], 

 parturient apoplexy and stable founder. 



3. Hydrotherapy (cold, heat, Priessnitz dressing), cutaneous 

 irritants, firing, massage, and electrotherapy are very important 

 methods of treatment in numerous acute and chronic surgical 

 disease conditions. (See the chapters on those methods.) 



4. The medical method consists in the use of direct stimulants 

 of the muscles and nerves: veratrin and strychnine; also in the 

 subcutaneous and parenchymatous injection of morphine, cocaine, 

 sodium chloride, and oil of turpentine (shoulder lameness). 



5. The operative treatment is either direct or indirect. Exam- 

 ples of the direct method are: section of contracted tendons or 

 muscles (tenotomy, myotomy), incision of purulent inflaitunations 

 of muscles, bones and tendon sheaths, and resection of necrotic 

 tendons, while neurotomy is an example of the indirect or symp- 

 tomatic method. 



6. Regulation of the shoeing is very important in numerous 

 surgical diseases (diseases of the hoof, ring bone, spavin, diseases 

 of tendons). 



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