FRACTURE. 



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A GOOD WAY TO SLING L HORSE WHEN IT IS THOUGHT BEST TO DO SO. 



Treatment. If in the summer season, place the horse in the field or 

 yard, but in winter in a large, comfortable stable or in the barn-yard, if 

 well protected from wind and storm. Do not give too much bed- 

 ding nor allow anything to be in the Avay of tiie foot, so that it can be car- 

 ried without interruption. Give twenty-five drops tincture aconite root 

 every five hours, for the first twenty or twenty-five hours, to lessen the 

 fever and pain. 



Place the broken leg in a position as near like the other as possible 

 in shape and also (by actual measurement) to be of the same length, for 

 it is by neglecting the measurement that some are left to unite shorter 

 than the sound leg. 



When the leg is placed in the same shape and length of the sound 

 one, apply a good coating of tar to the leg, around, below, and above 

 the point of fracture. Then wrap the whole leg in carded cotton or 

 coarse tow, and place over this splints cut out of pieces of boards, 

 which will rest evenly upon the leg prepared as above, and fill all un- 

 evenness with the tow or cotton. 



Have three or four splints, so as to hold the leg in position constantly. 

 Secure the whole by carefully applying a strong bandage, or by tying 

 with soft cord, and make it perfectly secure, so that the horse will not 

 move the leg where fractured, before it has time to unite. 



It is considered by some as bad practice to sling a horse from his feet 



