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zinc chloride solution of this strength, and lightly applied to 
the parts, the solution causing coagulation, and by being care¬ 
ful not to remove the clot, we are often successful in check¬ 
ing the flow of synovia. The mare was quite a pet, and took 
the best of care of hersell, rendering a sling, which I consider 
a necessary evil, not a necessity in this case. She was placed 
in a roomy box-stall, where she would lie down most of 
the time; the box being well bedded she did not get in the 
least sore, she never got the dressing displaced, and would 
allow dressing to be changed without offering to rise, all of- 
which rendered the case more favorable than it would other¬ 
wise have been. I never got any further suppuration after 
having opened the foot thoroughly, and as near as I can 
remember, the discharge was stopped in about ten days; the 
animal was put to work in about nine weeks.from the time 
of the injury, having continued lame for some time after 
parts appeared to be healed, which a few blisters seemed to 
relieve. Some time after this, perhaps two years ago, I had 
a similar case, synovitis, setting in a few days after the injury 
when the case had for a time seemed to be progressing 
favorably, lameness subsiding, suppuration checked, etc. ; 
applied the same treatment, though it was necessary to 
use a sling in this case, the animal being quite restless even 
with the sling, still I managed to keep the dressings from 
becoming displaced ; success was not so marked in this case ; 
the synovial stopped, however, about as soon as one could 
expect. I think I had anchylosis in this case, the animal 
remaining quite lame for some time, though he eventually 
became fit for slow work, being a draft horse. I had quite 
a number of these cases which I treated in this way with more 
or less success, and in my practice I have never had septi¬ 
caemia, or a case where a hoof sloughed off from a punctured 
wound of the foot, though I remember one in which I 
removed the entire sole and frog and in which two-thirds of 
the wall was loose. 1 think a free opening in these cases, 
allowing no loose horn to remain, especially in a location 
where it will allow pus to be retained, robs ordinal cases of 
their terrors. I suppose, gentlemen, it is unnecessary for me 
