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iodine and water — 1 to 3 — and the injection was retained three 
minutes within the cavity. In consequence, however, of albu- 
minous matters effused within from time to time obstructing and 
finally blocking up the aperture, the whole of the liquid injected 
could not be again recovered. After the animal had risen upon 
his legs some albuminous synovia made its escape out of the 
hole ; still, this was not injection, more than a third of which it 
was calculated remained undischarged. 
In the evening, the horse had some fever, and shewed darting 
pains in his limb : still he fed, and seemed on the whole as well 
as could be expected. 
5th . — The tumefaction is much increased, and he rests but 
occasionally upon the lame limb. The appetite continues good. 
5th and 1th . — Swelling of the hock greater — more impatience 
in bearing upon it — tumefaction hot and very tender on pressure 
—not a great deal of fever of re-action, and the appetite still 
good. 
8 th and 9/A.~— Has not lain down this last night — hock not 
more swollen, but augmentation of fever. Pulse 52. Respirations 
increased in proportion. No longer can suffer the lame limb to 
touch the ground. The tumefaction of the hock has become irre- 
gular, being greater on the outer than the inner side, where there 
is some sign of fluctuation, as if pus were forming in the joint. 
10 th . — Violent fever and excessive pain of limb. The pointing 
part, externally, is punctured ; a yellowish fluid is eliminated, not 
viscous, odourless, and containing to appearance pus globules. 
1 \th . — The tumefaction of the joint greater — pain as great as 
ever. Appetite failing. 
12th, ISth, 14 th . — Ulcerations making their appearance in various 
places, which, from their character, and from the discharges coming 
from them, threaten the approach of gangrene. They are of a 
phagedenic nature, running one into another, with livid edges, bad 
odour, and the discharges from them of an amount much to debi- 
litate. The pulse and respiration are getting rapid, and the appe- 
tite becoming worse. At the mouths of some ulcers false mem- 
brane is issuing out of the cavity of the joint, which, yellowish in 
its general aspect, has spots upon it indicative of gangrene. 
1 5th . — Gangrene has commenced within the joint, and the pre- 
sumption is, that the animal must in the end sink from constitu- 
tional irritation, the result of the resorption of the gangrenous ichor. 
He died during the night of the 16th — 17th. 
Autopsy , made eight hours after death. 
The ulcerations remarked upon during life were found between 
their ragged edges to extend with the synovial sheath. The lym- 
phatic glands in the groin were in a state of enlargement. 
