436 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



is heard apply a strong bandage to above the fetlock. D 

 no grating sooth the early inflammation for a day or two, 

 then render the parts immovable by a smart blister on tha 

 front and sides of the pastern from the hoof to the fetlock. 

 Such cases usually do well, though if the fracture extends 

 i ato a joint the recovery is Ukely to be imperfect. 



In the smaller animals bandages are requisite for fract- 

 ure of the digital bones. 



BONY GROWTHS ON THE PASTEEN BONES. EINGBONES. 



These usually begin as inflammation of the membrane 

 covering the bones, and at such points as give attachment 

 to hgaments, namely : the lateral aspects of the lower or 

 small pastern bone, and of the lower end of the upper oi 



Fig. 68. 



Fig. 68— Ringbones— high and low. The rough ir/egular deposits of nev> 

 l)one are shown on the lateral parts of the large ar.d small pastern bones 

 respectively. 



large bone. There is a cu-cumscribed, tender and some- 

 what elastic sweUing, with more or less soft, doughy en- 

 gorgement of the investing soft parts, and in course ol 

 time the exuded matter, at flrst soft, becomes hard and 



