OP.SKRVATIONS ON AN AllTICULAli \V()(JNI). 
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niacy. When fomentation is necessary, great care should be taken 
not to allow the water to come into contact with the surface of the 
wound, for it always adds to the synovial discharge. 
Venesection should be resorted to, according to the state of the 
patient; but it is essential that the bowels should be kept mode¬ 
rately open. The healing process of nature is always much as¬ 
sisted by this. 
On removing the first dressing, wipe the Avound clean Avith dry 
tow, and dress it Avith the compound poAvder already recom¬ 
mended ; after Avhich the dressing should be applied every day, 
or every second day, according to the circumstances of the case. 
This must be left to the judgment of the practitioner. I neA^er 
allow any thing Avet to be applied to the Avound after the first 
dressing. 
By adhering'to this mode of treatment, I have met Avith consi¬ 
derable success; indeed, it has only failed me in one case, and 
then my patient was more than tAventy years old. Finding that I 
Avas not succeeding, I had recourse to the treatment recommended 
by Mr. Hodgson in the March number of The VETERINARIAN, 
and bv means of this a cure Avas effected. 
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OBSERVATIONS ON AN ARTICULAR WOUND 
HEALED BY THE FIRST INTENTION. 
By M. Justine Ferdinand Mazure, M. V., d St. Mere Eglise. 
On the llth of October, 1839, I was sent for to see two carriage 
horses that had sadly beaten and mutilated each other during the 
preceding night. One of them Avas bruised in almost every limb, 
but, as the blows fell on the muscular parts, little mischief was done. 
The other, among many other places, Avas kicked on the inside of 
the right hock, two inches above the place of spavin, directly in 
the middle of the tarsian articulation, and at the place where blood 
spavin makes its appearance. There was a little wound running 
transversely across the hock, an inch and a half long, and some 
lines in Avidth, and penetrating into the interior of the articulation. 
There Avas but little lameness, and the hock was not swelled; in¬ 
deed, there was little time for this, for it was five o’clock in the 
morning when this skirmish took place, and I was soon on the spot. 
A very little blood had escaped, nor Avas there any heat or tender¬ 
ness; but a considerable quantity of synovia was beginning to be 
discharged, which Avas recognized by its oily appearance, and its 
coagulating as soon as it had escaped from tlie articulation. The 
