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the patella joints, the ischium, and the fleshy region imme- 

 diately contiguous thereto ; also the knees, the breast, and the 

 feet. We have attended upon scores of cases of this nature, 

 and by far the greater number were injured in one or more of 

 the parts named. When a veterinary surgeon receives an 

 order to attend upon a case of injury, he should go prepared 

 to combat consequences of the worst character. The most 

 formidable injuries are — fractures of one or more of the 

 bones ; penetration of the cavities of the chest or the abdo- 

 men, by large bodies — such as the pole of a coach or the eud 

 of a gig-shaft, attended with injuriy to the large blood-vessels, 

 or protrusion of the bowels, and division or laceration of one 

 or more of the larger arteries or veins. The next in impor- 

 tance are open joints ; after which we may rank flesh-wounds, 

 such as are extensively torn, lacerated, jagged, or contused. 

 For the former class of injuries, bandages, splints of wood, 

 and gutta percha, may be required. For the secod class, collo- 

 dion and cotton wool ; and for the latter, perhaps a few carpet- 

 pins, a portion of soft string, Tincture of Calendula, and Tincture 

 of Arnica. The consequences to be anticipated, (or which may 

 prove inevitable results of the severer forms of injury,) are — 

 hemorrhage, so profuse as to destroy the life of the animal 

 unless discovered and arrested ; limited, but permanent, rup- 

 ture of the bowels ; permanent lameness ; traumatic fever, or 

 traumatic tetanus. 



WOUNDS AND INJUEIES. 



"Wounds and Injuries comprise a number of conditions of 

 an abnormal character — such as Flesh "Wounds, Broken Knees, 

 Open Joints, and Fractures of the Bones. It is proper also to 

 describe wounds with reference to the region of the body in 

 which they may exist; as, for example— -abdominal wounds, 



