CHAPTEE VIL 



PARTICULAR FRACTURES — COntiuiLed. 



FRACTURES OF SCAPULA — HUMERUS — CONDYLES — OLECRANON — RADIUS 



ULNA TRAPEZIUM, CARPAL, METACARPAL, AND SESAMOID BONES 



" SPLIT PASTERNS " NAVICULAR AND PEDAL BONES BROKEN 



RIBS — LUXATIONS — CASE OF DISLOCATION OF THIRD CERVICAL 

 VERTEBRA. 



The College Museum contains many cases of recovered fractured 

 scapulae ; and this bone is liable to be broken through its neck 

 or body by muscular contraction, and through its spine by direct 

 violence, caused by blows or falls, 



Compound fracture of the spine will sometimes be found to 

 exist with the fragments completely detached ; in such a case, 

 they must be removed. 



When the body or neck is the seat of the lesion, if there is not 

 much displacement, speedy reunion will take place, and the ani- 

 mal completely recover, provided the articulation be not involved. 



But little can be done in these cases beyond enjoining quietude, 

 placing the animals in slings, and watching for untoward com- 

 plications. 



When the humerus is broken, I am of opinion that recovery is 

 impossible, although Professor Dick taught that such might take 

 place. The practitioner well knows that many powerful muscles 

 are attached to this bone, the action of which will render the re- 

 tention of the broken bone in anything like its proper position 

 an impossibility. Fractures of the tubercles, of course, like those 

 of the trochanters of the femur, will be an exception to this rule. 



When the humerus is broken, there is an immediate shortening 

 of the limb, from the inferior portion of the bone being drawn 

 upwards by the muscles attached to it; great lameness; and 

 there is very often a rupture of the humeral artery, or of one of ita 



