THE LIMBS AND TAIL 



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Painless reduction is easily effected, but it is a matter of 

 impossibility to keep the bones in place. 



In one very troublesome 

 elbow dislocation which 

 occurred in a toy Man- 

 chester terrier, the author 

 attained a successful result, 

 so far as the dislocation 

 was concerned, by wiring 

 the radius and ulna into 

 place, but the patient never 

 satisfactorily regained full 

 use of the leg. Under 

 chloroform and strict anti- 

 septic precautions, holes 

 were made through the 

 radius and ulna with a 

 fine gimlet. Fine wire was 

 the skin wound treated in the 



Fig. 202. — The Auitude assumed when 

 the Elbow is Dislocated. 



passed through these, and 

 ordinary way.' 



Fig-. 20;, 



-Skiagraph of an Elbow Dislocation.^ 



1 Veterinary Record, vol. xii., p. 344. 



2 For this I am indebted to Messrs. Rotherham and Singleton, M.R.C.V.S. 



