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ON WHITE TUMOURS OF THE JOINTS. 
cular capsules are red, and often much thickened. Sometimes 
the extremities of the bones are diseased ; and then they are in¬ 
creased in bulk, and softened ; the bony tissue is yellower, as are 
also the cartilages. 
In general, the weaker the horse is, the more serious is this 
disease ; the older the lesion, the more difficult it is to cure. It 
may terminate in anchylosis. 
Treatment .—Rest of the diseased part, so that the lesion shall 
be accompanied by as little pain as possible; but, afterwards, 
some motion of the joint must be induced, lest the affair should 
terminate in anchylosis. If there should be any symptoms of 
intense irritation, recourse must be had to the antiphlogistic treat¬ 
ment. Usually, during the six or eight first days, general bleed¬ 
ings are practised; sometimes local bleedings are used, as, for 
example, from the coronet, when the tumours are situated in the 
inferior articulations of the limbs. Local fomentations, emollient 
poultices, and vapour baths, are very serviceable. Great benefit 
is sometimes found from the employment of sedative herbs as 
poultices ; also from the use of laudanum, united with emollient 
poultices. The animal should put on a more or less restricted 
diet, according to the'nature of the case ; and if purulent collec¬ 
tions are formed in the body of the tumours, they should be 
opened in time. 
If the tumours are of long standing, and are accompanied by 
some pain, it is useful to bleed at the commencement of treat¬ 
ment 5 and then to have recourse to an equable and moderate 
compression, in order to avoid all the accidents attending too 
great a compression. 
Should these first means prove fruitless, blisters should be 
tried; but they must be used with very great precaution, to pre¬ 
vent their producing too acute an inflammation, which would re¬ 
quire to be afterwards combatted. 
The blisters should be repeated every four or six days, and ren¬ 
dered more or less stimulating, according to the state of the tu¬ 
mour. The last remedy which should be tried is the moxa, each 
pledget of which should be about the size of a sixpence, and the 
applications should be renewed every five or six days. 
If by the use of the blisters or the moxa the tumours are 
diminished or softened, compressions should be resorted to, tak¬ 
ing care to protect the wounds by covering them with fine tow 
and ung. populeum. 
The treatment should be terminated by frictions with ointment 
of hydriodate of potash, with the interval of a few days between 
each ; camphorated and ainmoniacal liniments may afterwards 
be used. 
