82 • DISEASES 



Gastritis See Stomach, Inflammation of 



Gatherings. — See Abscess and Boils. 



Glass Eye. — See Amaruosis. 



Glossitis. — See Tongue, Inflammation of 



Fractures. — While fractures are not of frequent occurrence in well- 

 ordered kennels, they belong to that category of accidents against which 

 there is sometimes no safeguard. A sudden twist, stopping in some hid- 

 den cavity while galloping over a field, jumping a fence, or from a car- 

 riage (one of the cleanest breaks of a hind leg occurred to a foxterrier 

 bitch of ours while jumping off the carriage seat and catching her hind 

 leg in the wire rail guard at the end of the seat), so one never knows 

 when such accidents will happen. Simple fractures are so termed when 

 a bone is broken into two pieces only; where a bone is broken into several 

 pieces it is termed comminuted, and when the ends of the broken bone 

 pierce the skin it is a compound fracture, which is the worst of all in the 

 piecing. To detect a simple fracture is not always easy, though of 

 course the other two conditions are more or less self-evident. In the 

 case of a simple fracture, the limb should be taken hold of above the 

 bruise or injury with one hand and with the other gently move the lower 

 portion of the limb. If the bone or bones are fractured a grating noise 

 will be heard and the jar of the broken bone can be felt. 



In treating this condition great care must be exercised in bringing 

 the broken ends together, and it is best that the services of a surgeon be 

 procured. In case that is not available, or a home cure is decided upon, 

 the ends of the fractured bones should be brought opposite each other, 

 and then splints, well secured by bandages, must be applied to keep them 

 in their places until the two ends are joined. This is generally from 

 three to four weeks in the case of a puppy, and from a month to six 

 weeks in a matured dog. If the case is not attended to immediately after 

 the accident the parts swell, and this swelling has to be reduced before 

 any attempt can be made to set the bones, and cold water or ice applied 

 to the swelling will easily reduce it. Before applying the splints it is 

 necessary to wind a bandage around the limb two or three times from 

 the bottom to the top, as this has the effect of preventing the splints 

 from causing unnecessary irritation. The splints, which are best made 

 of wood of about one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness, of sufficient length 

 to extend over the whole straight surface of the limb, should be four in 

 number, viz., one for the front of the leg, one for the back and one for 

 either side of it, and they should be just wide enough to cover the part 

 of the leg on Which they are placed. Before applying them, the inside 

 of each should be smeared with hot pitch, cobbler's wax or some such 

 6ubstance, so that they will adhere to the bandage and not slip, and then 

 another bandage, which should be of considerable length (about six yards 

 long) and one inch and a half to two inches wide, and which has been 

 previously soaked in a thick solution of gum or common starch, should be 



