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glued together with the mixture, were applied from the foot upwares 
to the shoulder, and passing then over the withers, from the front back- 
wards, and from backward forwards, were at last secured at the point of 
fracture with the adhesive mixture. The animal was left to himself. The 
twenty-fourth day the animal rested on his leg, the apparatus was taken 
off the forty-sixth day. After two months and a half he resumed his work 
as a cavalry horse. Recovery was perfect. 
Beaufils has described a method of treating fractures of the humerus 
and of the femur, which has given him good results in goats and which he 
believes is applicable to horses. With a long band of linen, he keeps the 
injured leg against the parts contiguous to it. Let us suppose it is a small 
animal which has a fracture of the left humerus. The animal secured in 
the standing position, the operator takes hold, with the right hand, of the 
forearm below the elbow, then with the left hand, raising the arm of the 
animal by its middle, he carries it in an upward motion, so as to bring 
it alongside the corresponding side of the chest, where he holds it. The 
band is rolled a certain number of times round the chest and the arm 
is kept in the new position. To have a solid contention, however, it is 
necessary to involve in the bandaging the elbow, the superior part of the 
forearm and the shoulder; other circular rolls serve to support the lower 
parts of the leg. Bands with pitch covering the whole, consolidate the 
apparatus. A large sized animal must be placed in slings. 
Tried at the Lyons clinic, it proved successful only in a goat. Dogs 
would not keep it. ; 
As rightly remarked by Lafosse, fractures of the humerus in small 
animals recover well. The muscles of the arm and shoulder are sufficient 
‘to hold the fragments in position. With simple fracture, without great 
displacement, a pitch plaster is advisable. When the more movable ends 
are likely to overlap each other, the bandage of Delwart is recommended 
for fractures of the superior part of the bone; for those of the lower part 
the method described by Peuch and Toussaint in their Zrai#é de Chirur- 
gie is indicated. It is as follows: The material necessary consists of: 
Fine oakum arranged in small pads, dressing linen or wide bandages, 
‘a mixture of pitch and turpentine, a solution of dextrine or of silicate of 
soda, and splints, made of pasteboard and cut in the pattern of the leg. 
One of these will be placed on the inner side of the leg and extend from 
the axilla to the foot; the other, placed on the outside, must reach the 
shoulder joint. All being ready, the dog, muzzled, laid on a table on the 
opposite side to the diseased one, is held quiet. The coaptation obtained, 
tu remove all irregularities of surface and give the leg the form of a per- 
fect cylinder, the operator envelops the fractured region and the other parts of 
the leg with oakum dipped in the sticking mixture of pitch or of dextrine. 
