FRACTURES, 435° 
percha is applied, in which, on a level with the trauma, a window is cut:: 
out, to disinfect it. Movable dressings must be removed quite often, . 
guided by the abundance of the secretions of the wound, the temperature - 
of the patient, the severity of the pains. That which must be avoided at 
all price, are diffused suppurations, osteomyelitis, purulent infection. 
Prothetical apparatus not being applicable in our surgery, as long as - 
a little sensibility and heat of the leg remains, and circulation and in- 
nervation seem preserved, amputation must not be performed, but saving - 
of the parts should always be attempted. r 
Long antiseptic baths, well carried out dressings will permit, without - 
danger to the patient, the elimination of dead tissues and “ nature is . 
always more saving than the knife.” It is thus that we proceed with com- 
plicated fractures of dog. We leave dead tissues eliminate, and are satis- - 
fied in avoiding.complications by, scrupulous antisepsy. We have obtained 
excellent results. Lately, when the amputation at the hock seemed 
necessary, we were able to preserve for a dog the greater portion of its . 
metatarsal and phalangeal regions. 
If, however, the bone is much altered, crushed in numerous splinters, 
if arteries and nerves are destroyed, if the wound suppurates and if the - 
general condition is serious, it may be necessary, to preserve life, to resort - 
to the ablation of the leg. 
The technic of the operation is regulated: After the application of © 
rubber garrote, circular incision of the skin on healthy structure, dissection 
of a part of it to cover the stump, amputated a few centimeters above the - 
cutaneous incision. ‘The muscles are cut with the bistouri, the bone with 
the saw, the large vessels are ligated with silk or catgut, the skin drawn | 
over the stump and sewed. Antiseptic dressing. After a few days, re- 
move the stitches. Generally in three weeks or a month, the cicatrization | 
is completed. 
Fractures are frequent: in Jirds, not only in the domestic gallinaceous, but . 
also in the other orders. Of all the bones, the humerus, tibia, femur, are - 
those on which fractures are most commonly seen ; they are rare in the - 
cubitus, radius, ribs or shoulder. 
On account of the presence of air in the hollowed tubes of the long 
bones, traumatic emphysema is often met with, and in cases of open 
fracture, allowing the escape of air, the bird has difficulty in flying, even if ' 
its wings are free from injury (Richard Owen, Gilt, Larcher). 
In the thirteenth century, Demetrius published a treatise-on the treat-. 
ment of fractures of hawks. Dieterichs wrote one on the treatment of these-- 
in gallinaceous. Often, when the lesion is left to itself, it repairs irregularly~ 
and leaves a large callus; sometimes, however, when the bird condemns: 
the wounded part to immobility, the consolidation is regular. 
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