OF FAKRIERY. 



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the accident occur while the Horse is at 

 grass, give bran mashes only. 



Description of the Plate. 



A, the form the boot is to be made in ; 

 B B, the length from top to bottom, about 

 seven inches ; C, the lace to draw the edges 

 too-ether within a quarter of an inch, so that 

 it may be made tight. 



FRACTURE OF THE THIGH-BONE. 



The this'h-bone is sometimes fractured at 

 its lower head, where it joins the bones of the 

 hock, though this is not a common case, and 

 ! have only met with two in the course of 

 twenty years practice ; though, I make no 

 doubt, many Horses are killed from the 

 appearance of the fracture ; the leg below the 

 situation of the fracture dangles and shakes 

 about, as if only sustained by the common 

 integuments (or skin), the Horse cannot 

 touch the ground with it, and literally goes on 

 three legs. It arises generally ence 



of temper of the Horse, or it may occur from 

 a sudden slip of the hind leg on wet slippery 

 stones in going up hill, &c. 



The first case I saw was a chesnut Horse, 

 one of the rankest kickers 1 almost ever 

 beheld ; but the gentleman to whom he 

 belongred, was exceeding: fond of him for sad- 

 die work, and having purchased a gig was 

 determined to try him in it, having for two or 

 three days previous, had him put to in a cart, 

 where he did not shew the least symptoms of 

 vice ; being so much pleased, he ventured with 

 him in the gig, having a friend with him, 

 who being the best coachman was requested 

 to take the ribbons in hand ; he had no sooner 

 done so, and being both seated for a start, to 

 eii€0urage the Horse on, he drew the whip 



across his loi ns ; the Horse refused to go, con- 

 sequently, the application of the whip com- 

 menced ; this would no longer do for the 

 chesnut, consequently he returned the com- 

 pliment with interest, until he had kicked the 

 dash-board all to pieces ; in doing which he got 

 his leg entangled between the foot-board and 

 the bar, and so near to the middle that he 

 he could not extricate it, he consequently 

 made a sudden plunge, and snapped the thigh 

 just above the head of the lower end of the 

 thigh-bone ; he was put into a friend's stable, 

 just by where the accident happened, and I 

 was immediately sent for ; 1 found the leg as 

 before dangling as if by a piece of cord ; I 

 confess the case being a new one to me, I was 

 a little taken aback at first ; on examining the 

 .eg, (which took me some considerable time 

 to do, the Horse was so restless, and sweating 

 profusely from the pain he was undergoing) ; 

 at length, having made up my mind, my next 

 attention was drawn how to secure the limb, 

 (not having any tackle with me) ; however, 

 I made shift and completed a cure. 



1 first got an old horse-collar and put on 

 him, then a roller, to the roller I fastened the 

 the top of the collar, with a strap I found in 

 the stable, to preventits getting forward on to 

 his neck. I then procured a halter, and 

 taking the end out of the noose, put the bow 

 part round the fetlock joint of the fractured 

 leg, passing the other end between the Horse's 

 fore legs, and into the collar, the end of which 

 I gave to an assistant to hold until I got the 

 Horse's leg into a proper situation ; I then pro- 

 cured a good bandage (woollen), and the 

 gentleman whose house the Horse was taken 

 to, fortunately happened to have by him three 

 parts of a bottle of liniment, composed of ol 

 turpentine, and ol olive ; I rubbed about 



