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Two abscesses opened on the neck of the third horse, in the 
part that had been cauterized, and after the entire healing of the 
wound. 
Notwithstanding these occasional inconveniences attached to 
the application of the cautery, experience has shewn that this 
method of treating phlebitis of the jugular is to be preferred to 
every other. 
I do not know whether it is to be attributed to the sharpness 
of the air or to the coldness of the nights, or to the eagerness 
with which dogs will rush into the water in the heat of summer, 
but a great many dogs have been subject to rheumatism in 
the joints during the present season. Larger animals have not 
been exempt from this disease. 
The affected parts have been covered with flannel, and, some¬ 
times, leeches have been applied round the joints of smaller ani¬ 
mals : rest has been recommended for the larger ones, and embro¬ 
cations of opiated oils. When the pain has obstinately continued, 
the cautery has been applied lightly over the part, or setons have 
been passed in the neighbourhood of it. This mode of treatment 
has succeeded in a great many cases. 
The iron railways, that exhibit the rapid progress of human 
industry, and which facilitate all the relations of commerce, have, 
for the present at least, been unfavourable to the horse. It is 
easy to see that the numerous carriages which traverse these 
roads, impelled with such velocity, and so heavily loaded, de¬ 
mand the employment of active horses, and must occasionally be 
productive of serious accidents. Some of the horses have been 
destroyed on the spot, others have received contusions and 
SEVERE WOUNDS. 
A great many of these cases have come before us in which large 
lacerated wounds had been inflicted, and occasionally the enor¬ 
mous muscles of the croup and the thighs had been cut through. 
The low waters of the Sabne, and the hard work and great fa¬ 
tigue which the horses employed in drawing the barges on that 
river have endured, have been the cause of various serious and 
fatal diseases. Five or six have perished, having first been 
attacked by violent ])ain (Tendolorissement) of almost every part 
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