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[Fractures 



Fracture of the Bones of the Skull, especially 

 those of the forehead, occasionally occur. 



Symptoms : The broken bone will be generally 

 found depressed ; the part is very painful, and 

 swelling soon occurs. This injury is often 

 accompanied by a good deal of acute conges- 

 tion of the brain, the result of concussion, and 



Showing- how to bandage a dog's chest for fracture of ribs 

 and other injuries to the chest 



as a result the dog often becomes unconscious 

 soon after the accident. This may continue for 

 days, or until the pressure, the result of the 

 fractured bone on the brain, is relieved by 

 operation. The dog, of course, during the 

 unconscious condition is quite paralysed in all 

 four limbs. After the pressure is removed, the 



