FKACTURE. 



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A GOOD ^VAY TO SLING A HORSE WHEN IT IS THOUGHT BEST TO DO SO. 



Treatment.— li in the summer season, place the horse in the field or 

 yard, but in winter in a large, comfortable stable or in the barn-yard, if 

 well protected from wind and storm. Do not give too much bedding nor 

 allow anything to be in the way of the foot, so that it can be carried 

 without interruption. Give twenty-five drops tincture aconite root every 

 five hours, for the first twenty or twenty-five hours, to lessen the fever 

 and pain. 



Place the broken leg in a position as near like the other as possible in 

 shape and also (by actual measurement) to be of the same length, for it is 

 by neglecting the measurement that some are left to unite shorter than the 

 sound leg. 



When the leg is placed in the same shape and length of the sound one, 

 apply a good coating of tar to the leg, around, below and above the point 

 of fracture. Then wrap the whole leg in carded cotton or coarse tow, and 

 place over this splints cut out of pieces of boards, which will rest evenly 

 upon the leg prepared as above, and fill all unevenness with the tow or 

 cotton. 



Have three or four splints, so as to hold the leg in position constantly. 

 Secure the whole l)y carefully applying a strong bandage, or by tying with 

 soft cord, and make it perfectly secure, so that the horse will not move the 

 leg where fractured before it has had time to unite. 



It is considered by some as bad practice to sling a horse froin his feet 



