American Veterinary Review. 
MAY, 1900. 
All communications for publication or in reference thereto should be addressed to Prof. 
Roscoe R. Bell, Seventh Ave. 6° Union St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City. 
EDITORIAL. 
EUROPEAN CHRONICLE. 
Hydrarthrosis and Hygroma. — The rebelliousness to 
treatment of dropsical conditions of articular and tendinous 
synovial bursae is often for veterinarians a cause of great con¬ 
cern. While in many cases they only assume small propor¬ 
tions, which after a certain lapse of time do not prevent the 
animal from being useful, yet remain a permanent blemish, in¬ 
terfering more or less with its market value, there are many 
circumstances when the dropsical state keeps increasing, where 
the walls of the sac and their surrounding tissues become infil¬ 
trated and hardened, and where the affection is no longer an 
eyesore, but interferes with motion, gives rise to lameness, de¬ 
forms the joint and the leg, and renders the animal entirely 
unfit for work. Many are the forms of treatment which have 
been patronized, but most of them have had for their object the 
removal of acute pains, or a certain reduction in the size of the 
tumor, and many also have been the failures which have fol¬ 
lowed the various applications of cold, of counter-irritation, of 
punctures, of cauterization, etc. 
European veterinarians in France and in Italy have lately 
reported series of experiments that they have made which seem, 
by the results obtained, to indicate that new forms of treatment 
are advisable. 
In the December, 1899, issue of the Recently are published 
attempts which were made on windgalls and articular thorough- 
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