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the sling, keeping the bowels in a relaxed condition, with 
nitrate of potash in the drinking water. With the above care, 
the blister was allowed to scale off; but seeing not the slighest 
improvement, and the synovial fluid escaping as fast as it 
formed ever since our first examination, ten days after she 
was first put in the sling and the hock blistered, we gave 
the opening another injection of chloride of zinc solution 
which was kept up daily, and applied cold water to each 
side of the hock constantly, by suspending a cask of water 
above the animal, and by means of two pieces of rubber 
hose about the size of a rye straw passing from the cask and 
bandaged to each side of the leg about four inches above the 
injured joint. The last named treatment was kept up for two 
weeks, which seemed as if it was going to have the desired 
effect; the patient in the meantime still remaining in the sling. 
At the end of that time the zinc solution was stopped, as was 
also the cold water, and the opening allowed to close, the 
sling removed and in a few hours the patient laid down for 
the first time in four weeks. But the injury was still very 
painful, the mare being large and heavy, although becoming 
quite emaciated by this time ; was unable to rise without as¬ 
sistance, so she was raised by means of the sling after laying 
about forty-eight hours, and kept in the sling for three days 
and nights, doing that way alternately for six weeks, but 
giving the injury no treatment in the meantime. At the end of 
that time she could raise herself because of her emaciated 
condition, and her appetite was as good at present as if she 
had no injury at all. At the end of two months after she was 
first hurt an abscess formed and opened on the opposite side 
of the joint from where she was first kicked, which discharged 
a sanguineous pus mixed with synovial fluid. This was 
cleansed with carbolic acid solution one to twenty, and washed 
with the same solution daily, till this opening healed which 
was three weeks after it first formed. Since the last open¬ 
ing formed, the bony conformation of the entire hock had been j 
enlarging, and by this time the owner, getting thoroughly dis- ' 
couraged, said he would turn her out in the pasture and let 
her “root hog or die.” He did so, taking her a little giain 
