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and had not re-appeared either during the formation or the 
extraction of the splinter. 
CASE III. 
On the 4th of August, 1827, I saw an entire horse, four years 
old. He could scarcely bear the least weight on the left hind 
leg ; the pastern and the coronet were swelled. In front of the 
pastern, at the articulation of the pastern bone with the coffin 
bone, there was a mortified surface, as large as a five-franc piece, 
in the middle of which was a fistulous opening. A probe pene¬ 
trated to the bone, and there flowed from the fistula an oily 
liquid, which I recognized as synovia. The animal, according to 
the proprietor, while they were harnessing him, entangled his 
foot in the belly-band, and struggled a long while before he 
could release himself. Two cracks at the back part of the 
pastern were the consequence of this accident. The horse had 
been treated fifteen days by a mere pretender, who had applied 
different ointments, and probably caustics, if we may judge by 
the wound on the anterior part of the pastern. I cleaned the 
diseased parts, after a great deal of trouble, by soaking them 
with oil, and then washing them with warm soap and water : 
the hair was cut close, the mortified surface which surrounded 
the fistula was detached, although with some difficulty ; and a 
wound of a tolerably healthy appearance remained. I dressed 
the wound and the cracks by means of pledgets dipped in water 
slightly alcoholized, and kept in their situation by a bandage a 
little tightened. 
1 6th .—The animal is not so lame; the bandage and the 
pledgets are soaked by the discharge, and the surface of the 
wound presents clots of synovia. I replaced the alcoholized 
water by an emollient liniment; and I produced compression 
upon the fistula by means of pledgets, which I kept there by a 
bandage tighter than at the first dressing. 
19th .—The wound has diminished; the synovial discharge 
has ceased, although we can yet perceive the edges of the 
fistula. Dress with the liniment. 
23 d .—The anterior wound required very little more atten¬ 
tion. But at this time several little tumours or boils began to 
appear along the course of the tendon, which caused a good 
deal of suffering to the animal, and retarded the cure more than 
a month. 
CASE IV. 
A Hungarian horse, three years old, fell on the promenade on 
the 25th of August, 1828. The soldier who rode him, perceiving 
that he was wounded in the fetlock, led him to the stable, and 
