ON THE TREATMENT OF CAPPED HOCK. 
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The vertebral column was exceedingly tender from the withers 
to the rump. The animal shrunk to the very ground if the slightest 
pressure was made on these parts. The mouth was clammy, and 
somewhat injected ; the pellets of dung were small and dry, or 
sometimes covered with mucus. The respiratory movements 
were scarcely disturbed ; the circulation was considerably af- 
fected ; and the pulse was hard, and varying from 60 to 70 in a 
minute. 
Soon afterwards the legs became very much swelled, and 
he walked with considerable difficulty. When some of them 
were creeping about it would have been thought that they were 
foundered. 
At the close of the disease diarrhoea supervened, and then, 
little by little, every symptom became relieved ; and in from 
ten to fifteen days the majority of them had returned to perfect 
health. 
In some of them, however, there were very serious complica- 
tions with pneumonia, the inflammation of which was extensive, 
and somewhat obstinate. 
Treatment . — At the commencement the horse was bled to 
from six to ten pounds, according to the state and constitution 
of the animal. Emollient and slightly laxative drenches were 
administered. Very little food was allowed, and that consisted 
chiefly of mashes and gruel. Some injections were administered. 
The back and loins were warmly clothed. Dry and gentle fric- 
tion was used. A little exercise in the sun, and under a good 
shelter, was allowed. 
Of our patients, not one was lost. 
MM. Renault and Bouley. 
On the Treatment of Capped Hock. 
By M. Rouelle, M.V.j Herouvillette, 
On the 22d of January, 1836, I was consulted respecting a 
mare, four years old, that had a capped hock. A little after the 
commencement of the swelling it was not larger than a pullet’s 
egg ; but, whether by the inconsiderate application of too irritat- 
ing ointments, or fresh contusions by kicking against a door 
behind her, it became double its original size, and was very ten- 
der, hard, and hot. I ordered a linseed-meal poultice to be ap- 
plied every day. 
30 th . — The skin was thinner on the inside of the hock, and I 
thought that I could detect some fluctuation ; and thinking that 
the resolution of the tumour would be difficult and tedious, I 
plunged my lancet into it. There rushed out some ounces of fluid, 
which I recognized as synovia, mingled with a red serosity. I 
