450 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
the lesion. is incurable... For small animals, a plastered or resinous immov- 
able dressing should be applied. . 
Fractures of the other bones of the tarsus are generally observed only 
with luxation of the joint, which they sometimes complicate. Rey has. 
published a case which occurred in a horse drawing railroad cars: - 
the lower end of the scaphoid was fractured, the inferior part of the 
cuboid worn by rubbing, the external metatarsal separated from the prin-- 
cipal and fractured in its superior third; the external ligaments and the: 
interosseus were ruptured ; the tendon of the flexor metatarsi was torn at: 
the insertion corresponding to the fracture. Such accidents are of the: 
most serious nature. Treatment is not attempted. 
AXL.—Metacarpus and Metatarsus. 
Situated at the inferior extremity of the leg and rather unprotected, 
the cannon in our large animals is much exposed to traumatisms of all 
kinds, consequently to fractures; but its vertical direction and the small 
size of the region favor the chances of the treatment. The fragments, 
specially when the division is oblique, are generally but little displaced, . 
and cases of complete recovery are rather numerous. Megnin has: 
published the case of a horse, in which union took place without the 
slightest treatment, the bone being only slightly crooked and the callus. 
large. Most ordinarily the manipulations of reduction are made standing, 
the fragments of the bone being in contact and the weight of the lower 
one sufficient to hold it in a vertical direction. In a few cases like that 
of Gombault, it is necéssary to cast the patient. The deviations of the: 
extremity must be avoided; the toe of the foot in solipeds and the in- 
terdigital space in ruminants will guide the manipulations. 
A number of substances has been used to make bandages. Gerard, 
Conte, Gombault have recommended black pitch. The cannon is sur- 
rounded with oakum impregnated with the sticking preparation, so as to- 
give it the size of the articulations which this bone cooperates to form; 
those joints are also protected with oakum from the pressure of the splints 
and guarded from cutaneous gangrene that might occur; splints, as long 
as the cannon (Gombault) or extending from the knee to’ the ground, so- 
as to assist in the resting of the leg (Conte), are arranged upon that. 
oakum and held by turns of pitched rollers. Deletre has advocated the: 
white of eggs, bitten with camphorated alcohol; Marzac, a bandage made 
of starch, plaster, wire, and oakum; Rossignol, starch, alum and white of 
eggs; Stievenaert, the bandage of Delwart, with oakum, pitched rollers. 
and splints. 
But, without doubt, plastered dressing holds the first rank. Used first- 
