subdue it by
the use of cold applications, as intermittent or constant irrigation or
an ice poultice; when these have exhausted their effect and the swelling
has assumed better defined boundaries, and the infiltration of the
tendons or of the ligaments is all that remains of a morbid state, then
every effort must be directed to the object of effecting its absorption
and reducing its dimensions by pressure and other methods. The
medicaments most to be trusted are blisters of cantharides and frictions
with ointments of iodin, or, preferably, biniodid of mercury. Mercurial
agents alone, by their therapeutic properties or by means of the
artificial bandages which they furnish by their incrustations when their
vesicatory effects are exhausted, will give good results in some
instances by a single application, and often by repeated applications.
The use of the firing iron must, however, be frequently resorted to,
either to remove the lameness or to stimulate the absorption. We believe
that its early application ought to be resorted to in preference to
waiting until the exudation is firmly organized. Firing in dull points
or in lines will prove as beneficial in curb as in any other disease of
a similar nature.

LACERATED TENDONS.

This form of injury, whether of a simple or of a compound character, may
become a lesion of a very serious nature, and will usually require long
and careful treatment, which may yet prove unavailing in consequence
either of the intrinsically fatal character of the wound itself or the
complications which have rendered it incurable.

_Cause._--Like all similar injuries, they are the result of traumatic
violence, such as contact with objects either blunt or sharp; a
curb-stone in the city; in the country, a tree stump or a fence,
especially one of wire. It may easily occur to a runaway horse when he
is "whipped" with fragments of harness or "flogged" by fragments of
splintered shafts "thrashing" his legs, or by the contact of his legs
with the wagon he has overturned and shattered with his heels while
disengaging himself from the wreck.

_Symptoms._--It is not always necessary that the skin be involved in
this form of injury. On the contrary, the tegument is frequently left
entirely intact, especially when the injury follows infectious diseases
or occurs during light exercise after long periods of rest in the
stable. Again, the skin may be cut through and the tendons nearly
severed. A point a lit