Cattle 1853 - Lewis Family Farm

OPENED JOINTS. 431
on internal causes, require bryonia, chiefly in cases of cold, or china
and arsenicum alternately, or sulphur, or mercurius vivus.
Aurum and belladonna are the principal remedies for tumors on
the head ; baryta carbonica for those on the lower jaw. With respect
to tumors on the chest, aconitum and bryonia are suitable, if they
are owing to cold ; arnica, if they are the consequence of compression.
When they are covered with scabs, thuja should be given, and,
after some days, sulphur.
ULCERS ABOUT THE JOINTS.
These tumors sometimes assume very much the appearance of
farcy in the horse. They run in lines, they follow the apparent course
of the* veins, but they belong to the absorbents. They frequently
ulcerate—the wounds are painful, deep, and spreading.
The dilute solution of the chloride of lime will form the best
application, and will usually be successful ; especially if occasionally
aided by some caustic wash, as a solution of blue vitriol, or dilute
nitric acid.
Homoeopathic treatment.—In ulcers which suppurate, the principal
means are : arsenicum, internally and externally, if the edges are
painful, everted, inflamed, with unhealthy pus ; silicea, if the pus is
thick and of a bad color ; chamomilla, sepia, and ontimonium, when
proud flesh becomes developed on it. Pulsatilla possesses specific
virtues in the case of fistulous ulcers. The following substances as
intercurrent remedies : ledum palustre, when the fistulas have an
opening sufficiently large, and the bottom is white and" lardaceous
calcarea carbonica, a capital remedy in all forms of fistulas ; lycqpodium,
when the orifice is small and there are numerous burrows ;
these remedies are interposed when the repeated doses of Pulsatilla
no longer bring about improvement, and about four days after we
should recur to the latter. Occasionally it is necessary to employ, in
addition, several intercurrent remedies.
OPENED JOINTS.
These sometimes occur from the injudicious lancing of the first
kind of tumor, but oftener from accident. The principle of the treatment
of open joints is to close the orifice as soon as possible, and before
the secretion of the joint oil is stopped, and the cartilages of the
opposing bones rub on each other, and the delicate membrane which
lines these cartilages becomes inflamed, and the animal suffers extreme
torture, and a degree of fever ensues by which he is speedily
destroyed. The wound is best closed by means of the firing iron.
Homoeopathic treatment.—Wounds of small extent are cured in a
very little time by the use of arnica externally. In ' such as are
deeper, arnica must be administered internally also. Symphytum is
useful whenever there has been any lesion of the bones or peri-
;