VETERINARY SCHOOL AT ALFORT. 
581 
A blister was applied in the region of the tendons on the left 
side, to divert to the skin the inflammation in the sheaths. The 
phlegmon about the joint was treated by applications of narcotic 
ointment. 
On the 25th there was no improvement of the general state, 
although the vesicatory had produced a sufficient degree of action. 
The skin was covered with phlyctenm. White diet : — the animal 
was turned into a thickly littered loose box. 
On the 27th, there was considerable amendment. The patient 
could rest better on the left leg. 
On the 28th, the right leg was now, in its turn, withdrawn from 
the ground ; the tendinous region had become the seat of con- 
siderable pain, and about the sesamoids was considerably tumefied. 
A blister was applied along the whole extent of the tumefied 
sheath. White diet diluted — a bleeding of six pounds: — the 
animal remained lying down the greater part of the day. 
On the 29th, the patient much the same. Alkaline drinks, and 
sulphate of soda, daily. 
On the 30th, the lower lip was paralysed: the appetite con- 
tinued good, but the animal could not satisfy it without diffi- 
culty, the paralysis of the lip impeding its power of seizing the 
food. Prolonged decubitus. 
On the 1st and 2d of January the off fore leg had ceased 
to be painful on pressure, and was rested with tolerable firmness 
upon the ground ; but the near leg had become very sensitive, and, 
on examination, manifest fluctuation was perceptible on the ex- 
ternal surface of the sheath. On this abscess being punctured, a 
considerable quantity of pus, mingled with blood, flowed from it. 
Treated by emollients. 
On the 4th of January, two fresh abscesses had appeared; one 
behind, on the posterior surface of the tendons ; the other in front, 
on the internal side, a little above the fetlock joint. On these 
abscesses being punctured, and especially the latter, which ex- 
tended over a larger space than the former, a great quantity of 
sanious, ill-conditioned pus issued. A considerable degree of he- 
morrhage followed the operation, although the artery certainly had 
not been implicated : it was arrested by moderately applied com- 
pression. 
On the 5th the limb operated upon was rested gently on the 
ground. Emollients continued. 
On the 6th the limb was placed firmly on the ground : there 
was evident improvement in the general state of the patient ; the 
wound made in the sesamoid capsule was in a fair way of healing 
up. The animal lay down during some portion of the day. In 
the evening he endeavoured to get up. In the state of numbness 
VOL. XIX. 4 K 
