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the reduction, it is safer to put on a bandage of an elastic nature, 

 crossing it behind the knee in the figure of 8, so as to prevent the 

 foot from being put to the ground. When the hip is dislocated, 

 considerable and long-continued force is required to effect the 

 reduction. But this is not necessary if the dog is put under the 

 influence of chloroform, by which the muscles are rendered in- 

 capable of resistance, and the head of the thigh-bone may then be 

 replaced in its socket without much difficulty, if the accident has 

 not occurred more than a day or two. The longer the interval 

 the greater the difficulty, and when adhesions have formed it is 

 almost impossible to effect a reduction. In the dog, the direction 

 of the dislocation is almost always forwards very rarely back- 

 wards. 



HAEMORRHAGE. 



WHERE THE BLEEDING is very profuse, in consequence of a stake 

 entering the chest, it must be stopped by plugging the wound. It 

 is rarely of long continuance in the dog, unless a large artery is 

 wounded, and generally in such a situation (as, for instance, the 

 space between the points of the shoulders) as to prevent our 

 tying it with a ligature. In the legs, the arteries are too small 

 to require such an operation, as a little pressure with a compress 

 and bandage will always suffice. 



