ON WOUNDS PENETRATING THE JOINTS. 
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her walking in the court, quite gay—seeking for something to 
eat, and betraying no alarm when she was ap)Droached and the 
injured limb handled ; and, indeed, resting upon it as she w^alked. 
I removed the bandao-es, and cleaned the wound with diluted 
spirit: it looked healthy, and I dressed it with the same liquid. 
30^//.—The wound was cicatrized—and there remained only a 
slight seam, which yielded to friction with camphorated spirit. 
CASE II. 
A horse belonging to the 5th squadron struck his knee 
against a nail, tore the integument, and opened the joint, in 
the month of June in the same year. I saw him almost imme¬ 
diately after the accident. The carpal bones of the second and 
third row were exposed. The wound was cleansed and dressed 
with diluted alcohol. The horse was forcibly kept up during 
the first forty-eight hours, and did not change his position for 
eight days afterwards. The same treatment as in the former 
case was continued. 
CASE III. 
On the 9th of May 1832, a horse belonging the 1st squadron 
received a cut from a sabre on the outside of the right knee. 
The articulations between the first and second rows of the carpal 
bones were opened, but the lateral ligament was not touched. 
A portion of synovia immediately escaped, mingled with blood. 
Cold water was first applied in order to stanch the blood, and 
then the wound was dressed, as in the first case, with pledgets 
of lint dipped in diluted spirit The animal was kept from lying 
down, and his diet w as restricted. 
VOth .—The dressing was not deranged, and therefore I did 
not disturb it, but applied diluted spirit externally. 
11^//.—I removed the dressing, and saw, with much pleasure, 
that the synovial discharge had already ceased. The dressings 
were continued fifteen days, at the expiration of which time the 
horse returned to his duty. 
After these results of a treatment exceedingly simple, can we 
avoid acknowledging that veterinarians have much exaggerated 
the dangers of these deep wounds of the articulations; and that 
it is much more easy than many of them think to obtain a com¬ 
plete cure, and in a very short space of time, by the employ¬ 
ment ot applications most easily procured ? 
I could add many other cases of a similar nature ; but as, with 
one exception only in which 1 was compelled to have recourse 
to the cautery, the treatfiient and the success were tlic same, 
J will [jass them over in silence. 
