REPORTS OF CASES. 
135 
in size. Mucous membrane of bladder apparently gone or worn 
off; bladder full of a muddy substance, apparently composed of 
urine, mucous, and small particles of calcus matter. 
OPEN JOINTS—THEIR TREATMENT. 
By C. H. Flynn, D.V.M. 
The treatment of these wounds has been very gratifying to 
me during the last year. I think veterinarians have been too 
prone to condemn animals which are suffering from these 
accidents. 
I have treated these lesions in the true hock joint, in the lower 
articulation of the hock, the femoro-patellar, the inter-phalangeal 
and the coffin joint. The majority of these cases have made com¬ 
plete recovery. Some have been attended with anchylosis, and a 
few have died or been destroyed. 
I find it of great importance to get these cases at the earliest 
possible date, and before constitutional fever has begun. The 
age and vigor of the patient, as well as ths sanitary conditions 
and surroundings, have much to do in the success of the case. 
My treatment is, in brief, as follows: Place the patient in 
a clean, well ventilated and drained stall. Have all the litter re¬ 
moved, and insist on the stall being kept clean. Either place the 
animal in slings, or tie the head so as to prevent lying down. 
Clip the hair, and cleanse the parts well. I prefer the corrosive 
sublimate solution, one to the thousand, for a disinfectant. 
Should the wound be of two or more days’standing, inject the 
joint with the corrosive sublimate solution. How dry the parts 
with a clean towel and sprinkle the wound with iodoform ; over 
this place a thick layer of absorbent cotton, well filled with 
iodoform ; bandage securely, and keep the patient on a moderate 
diet, preserving the utmost quietude possible. 
Should the bandage remain in place and the animal seem free 
from pain, leave the bandage and dressing in place from five days 
to a week ; then change it, and should the discharge be little, 
do not disturb it, but renew the iodoform and cotton dressing, 
leaving it on for another week. 
