134 A CASE OF ABDOMINAL HERNIA, &C. 
I made a lotion composed of plumb, acet., naphtha, and water, 
and constantly kept the leg, as low as the hock, wet with it; I 
also bled, and gave physic. 
I never use the budding-iron, as I think it tends to increase the 
inflammation, which, in these cases, is always sufficiently dreadful. 
On the next morning I found the leg a great deal swelled, with 
considerable inflammation. In the afternoon the physic began to 
operate. T continued this treatment during four or five days, the 
leg continuing to swell more and more, and the inflammation to 
increase, but at the same time the orifice to decrease. 
T kept a man up with her the first four nights, dressing her con¬ 
stantly with the powders and lotion. 
I gave another dose of physic, and continued our old course of 
treatment until the seventh day, when the swelling and inflamma¬ 
tion began gradually to subside, and the orifice closed. In three 
weeks from her being admitted into my infirmary, she was dis¬ 
charged in a sound state, leaving nothing but a slight scar, not 
larger in circumference than a shilling. Three days afterwards 
she was in the team. 
The next was a gelding, the property of Mr. Dickenson, of 
Middle Raisen. The hock-joint was here opened on the inside by 
a stroke from another horse: this also was a case of a serious na¬ 
ture. I bled and gave physic, and treated it exactly the same as 
the last, and in a little more than a fortnight it was as well as 
before the accident happened. 
In another case belonging to this gentleman, the knee-joint of a 
chestnut mare was opened by a hook. This case was treated as 
the other two; it, however, was a month before it was quite well, 
owing, I believe, to the action of the knee being permitted. 
I could relate many more cases which I have treated in the 
same way with equal success; and my motive for Avriting to you 
is to induce some of my brethren to abandon the use of digestives 
or caustics in the onset of such cases, having lost a valuable horse 
from that kind of treatment, and which, if I had adopted my pre¬ 
sent plan, would, I have not the least doubt, have been perfectly 
cured, and very soon too. 
A CASE OF ABDOMINAL HERNIA, FRACTURE OF THE 
FIFTEENTH RIB AND LACERATION OF THE SPLEEN— 
THE TERMINATION TETANUS. 
By Mr. John J. Hughes, Gresse-street, Rathhone-place. 
A GREY mare, four years old, belonging to Messrs. Pickford, was 
Avounded in the left side by the shaft of a cart, on the 24th Decem¬ 
ber, 1839. When admitted to our infirmary there AA^ere nearly five 
