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«Reduction of fracture of the scapula should be made with the animal 
standing; the little displacement of the fragments makes it easy; to do 
it, it suffices to keep the leg in extension and press in, with the hand close, 
the protruding portion of the bone” (Delwart). Contention is not indis- 
pensable (Delaporte and Plouvier). Furlanetto only applied a blister 
upon the shoulder of an eight-months’ bull; the lameness did not disap- 
pear; the animal was used for breeding. 
To keep the fragments in firm position, various apparatus have been 
recommended. The iron splint of Bourgelat is composed of a metallic 
band thrown over the withers 
and covers both shoulders. 
That which rests upon the 
injured one terminates by a 
plate-enlargement,upon which 
is secured by screws a piece of 
felt, which presses upon the 
center of the fractured region. 
Godine has obtained good 
results with the following: 
After application on the 
shoulder of a mixture of pitch 
and Venice turpentine, wide 
bands are laid from the 
withers, across the shoulder, 
chest, axilla, twisting round 
the elbow, crossing the scapula 
again from downwards up- 
wards to the withers, going 
over the opposite leg and Fig. 08.—Bandage for fractures of the scapulay, 
enveloping it in the same way, and for those of the humerus. (Delwart. 
to return to the fractured 
shoulder, upon which was laid an emplastic mixture at each passage of the 
band. ‘This was continued until the dressing had acquired a certain 
resistance. 
Delwart, in his method, used bands of linen, three or four fingers wide, which 
he dipped in a mixture of pitch and Venice turpentine. A certain number 
of rolls are placed round the arm and brought back to the superior part 
of the shoulder, crossing each other at the point of fracture. Others, 
starting from the withers, run down the shoulder, surround the shouider- 
joint and go to be fixed, some on the chest, others on the forearm. 
From the knee upwards, this region is also enveloped by rollers, others 
from downwards upwards: to give more solidity to the dressing, a new 
