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The bandage remained on for six days ; during which time the 

 patient was kept on his legs. On removing the bandage, care was 

 taken not to disturb the lint ; some fresh paste was smeared over 

 it, and a cold water bandage substituted for one of starch. The 

 chasm was finally healed by the use of collodion and fir balsam 

 without bandage. 



In slight wounds of the knee, it is sufficient to cleanse the part, 

 and wet, occasionally, with arnica — two ounces of tincture to 

 one pint of water, accompanied with rest. 



DISLOCATION. 



By dislocation is meant the displacement of a bone from its 

 articulating socket. The most common accidents of this charac- 

 ter occur in the stifle and fetlock joints, although, excepting the 

 elbow and coffin joints, all articulating surfaces in the horse are 

 susceptible of dislocation. In this country, very little attention 

 has ever been paid to the treatment of either dislocation or frac- 

 ture, and, in consequence, very many valuable horses have been 

 condemned, or abandoned by their owners for a mere trifle, that 

 might have been restored to comparative soundness. Horses 

 have been known to recover from dislocation of the spine, shoul- 

 der, hip, and we have had several cases of this kind, occurring 

 in the stifle and fetlock, that have terminated favorably. 



Dislocation of the Neck, or cervical vertebrae, is occasioned by 

 a horse pitching forward, or suddenly falling at a time when his 

 head is turned in a lateral direction ; or he may get into what is 

 termed an awkward fix, across the stall, or under the manger, 

 unable to extricate himself, and thus dislocates the bones of the 

 neck. The diagnostic symptoms are, muscular paralysis, unnat- 

 ural curvature of the neck; the head at the same time being 

 more or less pendulous, and at a certain point on the convex 

 side of the neck will be felt a space and fulcrum of motion. 



The means of reduction are, warm fomentations to the con- 

 cave side of the neck, gradual extension, and manipulation. 

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