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this, place the foot upon the ground, bend back the knee 

 forcibly, and let an assistant raise the opposite fore-foot. If 

 the bone is broken he will drop, if the muscles only are injured 

 he may stand. 



Treatment. — If the injury has occurred from a kick, which 

 has seriously contused the joint surfaces, all treatment may be 

 futile, but if not, the case will be hopeful, and especially in the 

 young. Bring the detached bone as nearly as possible into 

 position and retain it by a pad placed inside the elbow, and a 

 bandage and splints continued from the foot up. The patient 

 must be placed in slings. 



DISEASE OF THE ELBOW-JOINT. 



This must be diagnosed by the general symptoms of elbow 

 lameness and by pain in moving the joint, but especially when 

 it is fully extended. 



Treatmcjit as for diseased shoulder-joint, the applications in 

 this case being made to the elbow. If far advanced, or if 

 connected with fracture of the lower end of the arm bone 

 or of that forming the point of the elbow, it will usually be 

 unsatisfactory, 



FRACTURE OF THE ARM BONE. 



Fracture of the large bone between the point of the shoulder 

 and the elbow may occur from blows, or even wrong steps, and 

 is often attended by much swelling from extravasation of blood. 

 The only resort is to place the animal in slings and keep him 

 perfectly quiet. In rare cases recovery has taken place with no 

 distortion, the broken ends, in a transverse fracture, remaining 

 in apposition. Usually they are drawn apart by tne muscles 

 and ride over each other so that the limb is shortened. Such 

 a result is only desirable in breeding horses and in stock for 

 dairy or butcher. 



