448 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
With his apparatus (see Fractures of the Humerus), Lafontaine has 
-cured a fracture of the tibia in a mare. In the same way, Poisson 
‘obtained the recovery in a nine months filly. 
Lavigne threw down a young bull that he had to treat. With a ropes 
tied on the thigh, he made counter-extension ; with another fixed to the - 
-coronet he extended the leg and adapted the fragments together. To 
diminish the action of the muscles, he squeezed the tendo-Achilles on the 
tibia with bands of limen rolled several times round the leg. A piece of 
pasteboard, cut gutter-like, pitch, and splints from the hock to the lower 
-end of the thigh, served to form a strong bandage. The patient was left 
loose, free to lie down and get up. After thirty days, the dressing was 
removed, the callus was formed. 
Rossignol has published several cases of recovery of fracture of the tibia 
in swine and sheep. Inone, the superior fragment protruded through the 
-skin; it was amputated; a fenestrated bandage allowed the dressing of 
the wound with tincture of aloes. Oakum impregnated with a mixture of 
‘starch, alum and white of eggs, with splints and rollers, made a strong 
supporting apparatus. In the same way, Morin cured a heifer." 
According to Delwart, when the fracture is simple and transversal, 
‘success will always follow the application of an immovable bandage 
extending from the superior part of the fetlock to the patella. The 
bandage is reénforced with two strong splints, one external from the thigh 
to the fetlock, the other internal from the stifle to the same point. L. 
Lafosse has obtained the regular consolidation of a fracture of the tibia in 
a colt, a calf, six pigs, three sheep and a large number of dogs. 
In this last animal, those fractures recover very easily. Two pieces of 
pasteboard, cut in the shape of the leg and extending from the lower end 
-of the leg to above the stifle, are applied over a pad of oakum enrolling 
the leg, and kept in place by turns of rollers coated with dextrine, silicate 
-of potashor pitch. (See Fractures of the Humerus.) This bandage must 
be left in place from three weeks to a month. If it gets loose or becomes 
displaced, it is consolidated or replaced by another made in the same 
“way. 
With open fractures, the fragments are immobilized with an immovable 
apparatus, placed after careful disinfection and the wound well enveloped 
with wadding; but as the asepsy of the wound is often insufficient, a 
fenestrated bandage is preferable. 
fracture of the fibula exists most generally in common with that of the 
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1H. D. Fenimore delivered a calf which had a consolidated fracture of the right 
tibia near the lower third of the bone. The bone was bent a right angle and this de- 
formity was the cause of the distokia of which the mother suffered—American 
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