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the overlapping of the broken ends of the bone, and this, of 

 course, causes more or less shortening of the limb. There will 

 also be swelling, with difficulty of locomotion, and crepitation will 

 be easy of detection. This fracture is always a serious damage 

 to the patient, leaving him with a permanently shortened limb 

 and a remediless, lifelong lameness. 



If treatment is determined upon, it will consist in the reduction 

 of the fracture by means of extension and counter extension, and 

 in order to accomphsh this the animal must be thrown. If suc- 

 cessful in the reduction, then follows the application and adjust- 



Pig. 270 — Comminutd Frac- 

 ture of theHumeruB. 



Fig. 271.— Oblique Fracture of the Humerus 

 with Displacement and Partial I'udji 



ment of the apparatus of retention, which must needs be of the 

 most perfect and efficient kind. And finally, this, however skill- 

 fully contrived and carefully adapted, will often fail to effect any 

 good purpose whatever. 



Fracture of the Forearm. — A fracture in this region may also 

 involve the radius or the cubitus, the first being broken at times 

 in its upper portion above the radio-cubital arch at the olecranon. 

 If the fracture occurs at any part of the forearm from the radio- 



