. A treatise on surgical therapeutics of domestic animals. Veterinary surgery; Therapeutics, Surgical. CHRONIC SYNOVITIS—DROPSIES. 343 VIL-^Sheath of the Anterior Extensor of the Phalanges. Formed by the dropsy of the synovial which assists the sliding of the -tendon of the anterior extensor pf the phalanges on the anterior face of the fetlock, this windgall, called hygroma by some, is manifested by a soft, ^fluctuating, painless tumor, clearly bilobulated by the tendon of the ex- tensor, when it is of large size. More common in hind than in fore legs, it is seldom accompanied with inflammator
. A treatise on surgical therapeutics of domestic animals. Veterinary surgery; Therapeutics, Surgical. CHRONIC SYNOVITIS—DROPSIES. 343 VIL-^Sheath of the Anterior Extensor of the Phalanges. Formed by the dropsy of the synovial which assists the sliding of the -tendon of the anterior extensor pf the phalanges on the anterior face of the fetlock, this windgall, called hygroma by some, is manifested by a soft, ^fluctuating, painless tumor, clearly bilobulated by the tendon of the ex- tensor, when it is of large size. More common in hind than in fore legs, it is seldom accompanied with inflammatory symptoms or lameness, but it is difficult to obtain its dissolution. Cool applications, pressure or even blistering -can be used only against recent and small wind- falls ; at any rate, the results are only incom- plete. Cauterization even is not always suffi- -cientj often we have seen the tumor resist to numerous and closed penetrating points, yet this treatment often succeeds for windgalls of small :size. Simple puncture with the trocar is without ?effect; the tumor subsides temporarily and soon -"returns by a new distension of the bursse. Seton jun through, under the tendon, brings on recov- •ery by suppuration of the pocket. Free incision -acts in the same way. Rosenbaum, after having ifailed with several blisters, made an incision two -inches long: suppuration formed, the wound ^cicatrized and finally the tumor grew smaller. J^ccording to Rey, iodined injections is the best treatment. He says " this treatment has always ^iven us success, without leaving any apparent mark; it has specially the advantage of prevent- ing the return of the ; Out of some hundred horses treated at the clinics of Lyon, with iodined injections to the third, only ten "failures were observed and not one complica- tion. Sometimes, however, there was a large swelling of the fetlock and some abscesses of the subcutaneous tissue. Upon a first case treated with iodine
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