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SWELLED LEGS. 
ruinous effects of entrusting a diseased animal to the superintend 
denes of a man unprepared by anatomical and general medical 
knowledge. Not seeing a great staring wound, or a lump as big 
as his fist, he has no guide for his muddy judgment, but suffers 
it to flounder about as confused and unstable as a man returning 
from the companionship ofglorious souls,’’ until, at length, he 
fixes upon the shoulder, as being the most prominent object, 
upon the same grounds that the aforesaid reeler would cling to a 
lamp-post. Having determined that the shoulder shall bear the 
blame, he sets to work with a zeal proportionate to his ignorance, 
and blisters and setons, and hot oils, are in daily requisition, 
until the owner’s patience is exhausted, or the poor brute brought 
to death’s door by constant irritation. Oh! shame on the man 
who will allow his mind to give way to prejudice so far as to put 
faith in such cruel empiricism! 
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF INFILTRATION AND 
INDURATION OF THE CELLULAR TISSUE OF THE 
LOWER PART OF THE LEGS OF HORSES. 
By M. Lardit, F./S'. to the Depot at Braisne. 
I WILL not trifle with the time of your readers in describing 
the symptoms which characterize infiltration and cellular indu¬ 
ration of the lower portions of the limbs, for every person is well 
acquainted with them ; nor will I speak of the causes of these 
lesions, for they are numerous, and too well knowm to be stated 
here: I will only relate a mode of treatment which has often 
been attended with a successful result when the usual means 
have failed. The usual means are, moderate exercise, tonic and 
stimulant frictions of various kinds, firing, the administration of 
diuretics, and the use of setons. 
Convinced of the insufficienev of these means in various cases, 
1 have made numerous slight incisions, or scarifications, through 
the skin, but which have sometimes produced inflammation so 
intense, that it was necessary to have recourse to emollient fo¬ 
mentations. The inflammation, however, soon disappeared, a 
sero-purulent fluid ran from the incisions, and the engorgement 
diminished, but only to re-appear a short time afterwards. I did 
not wait until it had acquired its former bulk, but repeated the in¬ 
cisions, and which produced renewed and increased improvement; 
and I continued this until the enlargement had entirely disap¬ 
peared. I sometimes suffered three days to intervene betw^een 
the incisions, and in the interval I employed emollient lotions. 
