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dency to meddle with the parts a useful preventive is the “neck 
cradle” or other such device. The wound wants careful atten¬ 
tion for sometime when the cautery has been deeply inserted, 
about ten days after the operation there is often quite a fetid 
discharge, requiring the cleansing of the parts with a weak an¬ 
tiseptic wash and the application of astringents and possibly 
caustics. This should be attended to until the granulations are 
healthy. 
In many cases, at the expiration of a month, it is good 
practice to turn them out in a yard or pasture, but it inclined to 
run and play, the patient is better off in a box-stall until cured. 
In about six to ten weeks the blister may be repeated if 
thought necessary. The application of this will be determined 
by the subsidence of inflammatory action which has been pro¬ 
duced, the state of the integument and the lameness existing. 
If at the end of three months, the patient is still lame, the oper¬ 
ation may be repeated. One should not feel discouraged because 
the first operation may not have had the desired effect, as the 
second will often prove successful. 
A favorable sign is the gradual improvement in the lame¬ 
ness and the animal standing in a more natural position. The 
length of time we should expect a cure will vary from six weeks 
to a year. 
Some old patients fired in this way, where complete anchy¬ 
losis does not take place, may be very much relieved of their 
lameness by the movement of articulation being lessened from 
the organization of the effusion which has taken place aiound 
the joint, and by the subsidence of the inflammatory action. 
If from any cause we are unfortunate enough to puncture an 
important bursse, treatment should be the application of an an¬ 
tiseptic dressing and compress to the part. This should be 
changed daily until the flow of synovia ceases and kept in posi 
tion some days after. By preventing the air from entering the 
wound, acute inflammatory action and pain will probably be 
prevented. 
I can call to mind many cases in all classes of patients 
