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FRAOTURES. 



The use of the different buckles and straps which are attached 

 to the sail-cloth will be evident on inspection. If the horse 

 exhibits more than usual uneasiness, other ropes may be attached 

 to the corners of the sail-cloth. This will afford considerable 

 relief to the patient, as well as add to the security of the band- 



Fig. 49. 



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In many cases the fracture, although a simple one, may be 

 visible on the slightest inspection ; in others, there may be 

 merely a suspicion of its existence. In detecting it, will be 

 exhibited the skill and humanity of the educated surgeon, or the 

 recklessness and brutality of the ignorant pretender. 



Heat, swelling, tenderness, fearfulness of the slightest motion, 

 crepitus, (crackling) and especially change of the natural position 

 of the limb, are the most frequent indications of the fracture. 



The probability of reunion of the parts depends upon the depth 

 of the wound connected with the fracture — the contusion of the 

 soft parts in the immediate neighborhood of it — the blood-vessels, 

 arterial or venous, that have been wounded — ^the nearness of 

 some large joint to which the inflammation may be communi- 

 cated — dislocation of the extremities of the fractured joint — in- 

 juries of the periosteum — the existence of sinuses, caries, or ne 



