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few months, the muscles regained their ordinary size and the lameness 
disappeared. 
In a horse having an oblique fracture, Delwart applied a dressing that 
he described as follows: The fracture being reduced, the animal standing, 
wide bands of linen covered with resinous mixture were applied from in- 
wards outwards, upon the fractured spot, and drawn, crossing each other, 
-over the external face of the forearm and of the shoulder; similar bands 
were arranged from the middle of the cannon to the level of the fracture ; 
a pad of oakum laid on the internal face of the olecranon was fixed by two 
Jong bands crossing each other over the shoulder and secured on the sides 
-of the withers and of the neck; and then a wooden splint, extending 
from the foot to the superior part of the shoulder, was fixed by circular 
‘turns of a roller. The animal was placed in slings. Four weeks after the 
“bandage was taken off; the horse was very lame. “Four months later, his 
gait was normal. 
For fractures of the radius, Lafontaine has advocated the same appara- 
‘tus as the one he used for those of the humerus. 
Already in 1847, Bonnefond recommended the plastered bandage. On 
-a fifteen-year-old mule suffering with an oblique fracture of the radius, he 
‘rolled round the broken region long pads dipped in diluted plaster, upon 
which he applied splints, also plastered, and kept in place by bands of the 
‘same nature. After two months the apparatus was removed, the patient 
left loose in a spacious place ; he stood well on his foot, there was no de- 
-viation in the leg. A horse treated the same way returned to work after 
three months, notwithstanding a slight deviation of the leg inwards. 
Miller recommended a plastered bandage from the knee to the olecranon.’ 
Although serious, the prognosis of radial fracture is not necessarily fatal. 
afore and Lafosse have obtained the recovery of an oblique fracture of 
the radius, involving the radio-carpal joint. 
If the fracture is open, fenestrated bandages permit the attendance and 
-care of the wound, which at the same time they immobilize. Bringard 
thas cured a mare suffering with an open fracture of the radius, with 
arthritis of the knee. The bandage being applied with mixture of Piau, 
the articular lesions were treated with ordinary means (sublimate 2 p. 
1000, nitrate of silver, egyptiacum.) 
In small animals, complications must not prevent the practitioner from 
‘1 In acase of compound fracture of the radius ina two-year-old filly, McLean per- 
formed the amputation and the animal recovered.—Amer. Vet. Review, Vol. 12, p. 
I. 
na the case of Adair, the mare, fifteen years old, was pregnant by a very valuable fast 
-stallion. She had sustained a compound fracture of the left forearm, the bone pro- 
truding through the side. The leg was amputated and the mare recovered, and gave 
birth some two months after to a colt.—Am. Vet. Rev., Vol. 11, p. 547. 
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