98 . PAETICULAE FRACTUEES. 



as a rule, will eat it. Gentle exercise is to be given from day 

 to day ; and in order to prevent the patient eating the bedding, 

 it should have a loose box littered with sawdust. In about a 

 fortnight after the accident, if the case does well, chopped hay 

 may be allowed, with boiled oats and bran. I have heard of a 

 case of fracture of the condyle of the lower jaw, with open joint, 

 and that the patient recovered, with perfect motion in the 

 articulation. Such a thing may be possible, but is scarcely 

 credible. 



Fracture of Anterior Maxillary Bone must be treated in 

 the way already laid down — that is, by the copper wire and 

 bandage. 



Fracture of the Nasal Bones occurs rather frequently, from 

 runaway horses coming in contact with hard substances, such as 

 lamp-posts, &c. As a rule, one of the bones is fractured, but 

 occasionally both are found broken. In old horses these bones 

 are much more easily fractured than in young ones, for the simple 

 reason that their great elasticity in the young enables them to 

 bear and resist violent shocks of concussion. These fractures 

 may be complete, or partial only, — in the latter case the outer 

 plate of the bone being broken, and the inner bent in without 

 being fractured. When it is complete, it will be found that 

 the Schneiderian membrane is lacerated, with perhaps sharp 

 fragments of the bone sticking through it. This wall be more 

 particularly the case in the lower portion of the nose. If the 

 lesion is at the upper part, the fragments w^ill be driven into 

 the facial sinuses. The symptoms of fracture of these bones 

 wiU be depression; haemorrhage from the nose; and if the 

 depression is extensive, the breathing will be impaired by the 

 inward bulging of the displaced bones. I remember a case 

 where this impairment was a permanent unsoundness. The 

 fracture was an old one, w^hen seen by me, wdth considerable 

 depression upon the front of one nostril. When the horse was 

 quiet there was no noise in the breathing, but when put to 

 work, there was a sound emitted during both acts of respira- 

 tion, accompanied occasionally by haemorrhage. The case was 

 tried at the Halifax County Court; Mr. Dray, of Leeds, and 

 myself certifying to the unsoundness of the horse; the Judge, 

 JVIr. Stansfield, concurring, and giving judgment accordingly. 



In the treatment of this fracture, whether it be sim^Dle or 



