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the bottom of the wound, which I did, much against the 
horse’s will. I was gratified to find nothing hard. On re¬ 
moving the probe a gush of synovia followed. I thinned the 
horn around the wound, injected it with a i to 500 solution of 
corrosive sublimate, and placed him in an astringent tub of 
zinc sulphate through the day, and a poultice of bran wet 
with white lotion at night; gave two small doses of opium 
and camphor. This treatment was continued for four days, 
when, as he was resting his toe, the sedative was discon¬ 
tinued. On the third day the temperature was 102 2-5, but 
fell gradually from that. Very little suppuration occurred 
till the third day. In six days he began to lie down when re¬ 
leased from the tub, and stay the greater part of the night, 
always lying on the sound side, and getting up without any 
trouble. 
On the 30th of May (nth day) the discharge of synovia 
had ceased, but there was still considerable suppuration. The 
wound was now poulticed with flaxseed meal during the day, 
and shorts wet with white lotion at night for five days, when 
a high-heeled shoe was applied, the wound injected with a 
three per cent, solution of carbolic acid once a day and 
dressed with oil of cade on a pledget of oakum, kept in place 
by a thin strip of pliable wood. On June 15 th, a little less 
than a month from the time of the accident, the horse still 
remained quite lame, but as the wound was entirely healed 
he was shod with a leather and turned out to pasture, where 
he remained for six weeks and was then put to work, and 
only a slight hitch was noticed in his gait when starting. 
Case No. 3.—A large roan mare, weighing about 1,400 
pounds, was admitted to the hospital Dec. 15, 1889, with the 
history of having picked up a nail, four days previous, in the 
near fore foot. 
The wound was dressed with tar and oakum and shod 
with a leather. The mare worked for two days slightly lame 
and then grew much worse. As there was some snow and ice 
in the streets the owner decided that she must have slipped 
and strained her shoulder, and applied linaments to that part 
for two days ; but as she was constantly getting worse he 
sent her to the hospital. 
