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Memoire sur le Traitement des Lesions Traumatiques des 
Synoviales Articidaires et Tendinenses par la Glycerine. 
Deuxieme partie de ce Memoire. Par M. Aureggio, 
Yeterinaire en Deuxieme au 4e de Hussards a Sezanne 
(Marne), &c. 
We have received the above, and, since to it was awarded 
the gold medal and 500 francs by the Committee of Medico- 
Chirurgical Pathology of the Central Veterinary Medical 
Society of Paris in 1877, wish to draw to it the attention of 
our readers. Our author tells us that the matter first came 
under his notice after reading one of the works of Demar- 
quay on glycerine. He says :—“ We are too much inclined 
to seek remedies in violent measures, and to consider as in¬ 
significant those which we are not compelled to regulate 
with care and circumspection.” The investigation of the 
subject is, therefore, divided into the treatment of traumatic 
arthritis (1) by the blister and glycerine injections together 
(2) by continuous irrigations and glycerine injections; (3); 
by glycerine injections and dressings. The method in each 
division is illustrated by carefully described cases, and the 
whole are summarised in a recapitulatory table. The author 
gives the following en resume: 
“ The treatment of articular wounds is very simple and 
easy of application according to our method. The common 
treatment—blood-letting, short diet, &c.—does not seem to 
us reasonable, since traumatic fever is always accompanied 
by loss of appetite. It is, therefore, improper to weaken the 
animal beforehand. By giving him, on the contrary, his 
ordinary food, or even a more substantial diet, we enable him 
to store up precious resources to resist the fatigues of a long 
course of treatment, during which lying down is for a long 
time prevented. Laxative agents also are often necessary to 
prevent and to oppose constipation. Enlargement of the 
synovial fistula by removal of debris from it is contra¬ 
indicated, since it tends to retard cicatrisation, and to give a 
more easy entry to air. The lameness and the state of the 
wound indicate the gravity of the lesions. Whilst the elaudi- 
cation is little marked we may wait, only taking care of the 
wounds by douches or cold lotions. But as soon as it 
appears, as the part becomes hot and sw r ollen, we should 
apply a large blister. The horse must not be moved, must 
be “ racked up,” and, if possible, slung. In every case 
glycerine is applied on the articular wound, and retained in 
a special manner. Injections of glycerine are to be com- 
