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Mr. Goodwin thought that the mechanical part was likely to 
succeed in many cases; yet, so far as his experience went, he 
feared that many animals would be left with stiff joints. 
Mr. T. Turner has perfectly succeeded with the hock joint 
when punctured, and with laceration of the knees in post-horses, 
when early attended to, and not accompanied by fracture. 
Mr. Goodwin still thought the poultice as successful as any 
other mode of practice. Every practitioner must have seen many 
cases cured by a stocking judiciously applied. 
Mr. J. Turner imagined there was this important difference,! 
that, by the mode of treatment recommended by his brother, the 
coagulum, so essential to a cure, could not be removed. 
Mr. Goodwin would not remove the coagulum, and would apply 
his crushed linseed meal poultice, so as to take aw r ay the motion > 
of the limb. 
Mr. Percivall, in a case of extensive laceration, found a fractures 
of one of the bones. He poulticed and bandaged for a day or> 
two, when a great discharge of synovia appeared. He then used! 
the cautery, common powder, and a bandage, for four or five] 
days: there was still discharge. He applied the cautery again:] 
the horse got well. He attributes it to the cautery; but inanotheil 
case he would be much disposed to try Mr. T/s plan. 
Professor Coleman.—Fomentation and poulticing must open] 
the wound and increase the discharge. Mr. Turner’s plan wouldj 
cork up the secretion. W hich would most diminish irritation ? 
Mr. Field would leave nature as much as possible to herself.i 
The orifices of the wound should be brought together if prac¬ 
ticable, and the wound healed by the first intention. We have a I 
different chance to effect this in different joints. In punctures old 
the bursae of the hock considerable effusion takes place. All 
length the lips open and the fluid escapes. If the edges arc 
brought together by a stitch, and pressure applied, the irrita-l 
tion which may have previously existed is speedily subdued^ ! 
and the horse does w r ell. If the suppurative process has beer 
established, adhesion will not take place. In the knee, in acci- > 
dents between the radius and first row of bones, or the first and \ 
second rows, where there is the greatest motion, it is difficult tc 
produce adhesion. The joint is frequently opened below, and the i 
tendon lacerated ; but the horse does well. Of all joints the stifle i 
is the most unmanageable and dangerous. The animal cannot be • 
kept quiet, and flexion of the limb produces irritation. 
Mr. Goodwin asked, in what way the curative process was 
set up, whether by granulations as in all other cases, and then i 
whether the soothing system were not the best? 
Mr. T. Turner replied, by the formation of lymph, and then 
