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iExtractg 
Cases of Wounds of the Joints. 
Hi) M. Le Coq, of Lyons. 
A filly, eighteen months old, found her way, on the 26th of 
December, 1826, into a stable, where was a machine for cutting 
chaff, armed with its blade. The servant, seeing her go out 
lame, examined her, and found a deep cut on the anterior face of 
the right hind fetlock. 
Being called to her immediately, I found her lame; when she 
walked, she dragged the injured leg after her. The cut extended 
from one side to the other of the fetlock, close to the lateral liga¬ 
ments of the joint. When she flexed the leg, the two lips of the 
wound were separated more than an inch and a half; the exten¬ 
sor tendon was cut quite through, and the blade of the machine 
had penetrated into the cannon bone two lines in depth. The 
wound bled very little, but some synovia was mingled with the 
blood, which I supposed proceeded from the sheath of the di¬ 
vided tendon. Hoping to diminish the size of the wound, and, 
by bringing the lips of it together, to cause it to heal by the first 
intention, at least towards its extremities, I enveloped half of 
the cannon bone, the fetlock, and the pastern, with many folds of 
linen covered with the white of an egg, in order to make them 
adhere together. I applied on each side a splint somewhat 
long, and on the anterior face of the joint a third splint of iron, 
curved so as to adapt itself to the part, and keep it in a state of 
extension. I secured the whole by some turns of linen bandage 
tightly drawn, to which were attached two straps with buckles, 
the one going round the pastern, and the other the lower head 
of the cannon : the animal was put into a stable by herself, and 
was restricted to straw and white water. 
The bandage was not removed until the 29th : the wound was 
a little cicatrized, but its lips were much swelled, and a clot of 
synovia was found between them. The lameness was greater than 
on the 26th. The wound was covered by a pledget dipped in 
water slightly alcoholized, and kept in its situation by a bandage 
rather tight. ° 
30th. The lameness was diminished, the swelling of the lips 
of the wound was increased, and the clot of synovia was en¬ 
larged. This last circumstance assured me of the state of the 
joint; which, on examination, I found opened, and into which I 
passed a very small and flexible probe. The pledget smelled 
very strongly. 
