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A month under such treatment invariably secures union. 

 Such fractures are usually transverse or oblique. 



Fracture of the scapula is occasionally met with, chiefly in 

 small toy dogs, and is usually caused by tumbles down- 

 ' stairs, or from elevated positions. I have treated two (the 

 only ones brought under my care) successfully ; both were 

 fractured at the neck of the bone.* Two pasteboard splints 

 smeared with pitch were placed parallel, and a quarter of an 



FRACTURE OF SCAPULA, SHOWING POSITION OF SPLINTS AND 

 PLASTER. 



inch apart and obliquely ; another was then applied cross- 

 ways, and a pitch-plaster on sheep-skin covered them and the 

 whole shoulder (Fig. 35), I then passed a bandage, com- 

 mencing from the centre of the shoulder across the withers, 

 to the other side under the brisket back again, and so on, 

 several times securing it in its situation with pitch (Fig. 36). 

 On the 24th of May, 1877, a cub fox, belonging to Mrs. 

 Boughey, five weeks old, nursed by hand, was brought to me 

 suffering from comminuted fracture of the scapula. I set it 



■ * Since writing the above I have had many cases of scapula fracture 

 to deal with, arid in following out the same principle of treatment I 

 have had similar success^ 



