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happens after comniinuted fractures or when the injury has 

 not been attended to during the first few days. The internal 

 administration of phosphate of Ume in the form of syr 

 phosphat. CO. and hme-water is beneficial 



3. Gangrene, owing to severe injury to the principal 

 vessels or to the bandage having been put on too tightly or 

 insufficiently padded. A foetid, sickly smell from the 



Fig. 2ig. — Fracture of Lower End of Each Humerus.^ 



bandaged leg, and continual uneasiness and attempts at 



licking on the part of the patient, must always give rise to 



suspicion of this, and the bandage should at once be removed 



and the wound treated antiseptically. 



4. Chafing or wounding of the tissues from rubbing on 



the hard edges during progression or other movement. 



' For this specimen I am indebted to Mr. Snaith, M.R.C.V.S. 

 (Veterinary Journal, vol. Ixi., p. 13). 



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