CHAPTER XX 



FRACTURES AND WOUNDS 



In virtue of the work the hunter has to perform, 

 it is, so to speak, predisposed to both fractures 

 and wounds, more especially the latter, which 

 are commonly of the " staked " variety, and it 

 is just this class of wound that so often proves 

 dangerous. The two conditions may be asso- 

 ciated; if so, the gravity of the injury is rela- 

 tively greater. An injury of this kind is spoken 

 of as a compound fracture, whereas, when a 

 bone is merely broken without any such wound, 

 it is called a simple fracture, which may be 

 either "transverse, oblique, or longitudinal." 

 In a transverse fracture, the bones may be 

 broken across, the other terms being sufficiently 

 explanatory. In the horse, oblique fractures 

 are the commonest, and like other fractures may 

 or may not be accompanied by " displacement," 



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