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ON OPENED JOINTS,, 
considers that it possesses powerful nauseating properties, and 
that it greatly tends to lessen arterial action. 
Digitalis, in doses of a drachm, combined with nitre three 
drachms, and tartar emetic one drachm, given every six or eight 
hours, is also recommended, from its sedative and diuretic effects. 
I have given nitre half an ounce, and tartar emetic one drachm, 
every eight hours, with very good effect. I have also given the 
antimonial powder in doses from two to three drachms every six 
hours, with much benefit. From one to two drachms of aloes, 
given every six or eight hours, is also considered effective; but 
the difficulty in administering this medicine is to regulate it so as 
not to produce purging, which is always attended with more or 
less danger in this disease# This last remedy is the one prac¬ 
tised at the Royal Veterinary College. 
If, after giving any of the above-mentioned medicines, we have 
succeeded in getting rid of the inflammatory symptoms, and 
there remain any debility (which is more than probable), or the 
appetite is not quite restored, we may venture to give eithei 
some vegetable or mineral tonic; but we must be very careful to 
satisfy ourselves that the inflammatory stage has quite subsided, 
otherwise we shall do much mischief. Exercise should at first 
be moderate, and continue to be increased as our patient gain^ 
strength. 
ON OPENED JOINTS, AND PARTICULARLY 
THE KNEE. 
By Mr , Thomas Turner. 
[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, April 1 , 1829.] 
Gentlemen, 
HAVING taken upon myself to select, as a subject for this even 
ing’s discussion, a disease so formidable as that of an opened 
joint, and more particularly so large and complex a joint as th 
knee of the horse, and in which the difficulty of cure is so greal 
as frequently to baffle the skill of the most experienced prac 
titioners, I feel it incumbent on me, as a young man, to state m\j 
reasons for so doing. One object is, to relate in detail a methodj 
of treatment which I have adopted for several years, and which j 
I flatter myself, has been attended with extraordinary success \ 
although I cannot say it has proved so uniformly successful as ti 
enable me to offer it to your notice as a complete specific; buf 
my principal aim is to induce discussion on a particular method 
of treatment for wounded mints, to which, I confess, I am mud 
