FRACTURES, 451 
by Bernard, then by Bonnefond, Vidal,- Pujos, -Bouley, Nocard, Morand, 
Furlanetto, Lucet, it is superior for fractures of the cannon. Pujos sur- 
rounded the leg, from the foot to the middle of the forearm, with bands 
dipped in wet plaster and rolled from downward upward. He put on three 
coats and thus made a cylindrical muff, sixty centimeters long and thirty-two 
in circumference. Removed forty-five days after, the animal stood firm; 
and two months after the accident the horse was not lame. Vidal ap- 
plied first, upon the cannon, oakum dipped in a mush of plaster, then 
splints, one on the inside, the other on the outside, extending from the 
knee to the lower part of the fetlock and kept in place by plastered 
bands, and on the top of those a thick layer of plaster; a month after 
the horse resumed work; fifteen days later recovery was complete. 
Morand used about the same technic in a fifteen days old colt, suffering 
with fracture of the metatarsus; he removed the dressing in twenty days ; 
union had taken place. Ona twenty months steer, the same author ap- 
plied a similar bandage, which was taken off after forty days. There re- 
mained a slight lameness, which disappeared later. The observations of 
Lucet and Furlanetto show that after thirty days a firm callus is almost 
always formed, in bovines. Simon has utilized gutta-percha in an eight- 
een-year-old horse. This animal died of colics on the twenty-third day 
of the treatment. At post mortem a temporary callus, very firm, had 
already formed. ‘ Complete recovery, without-deformity, would certainly 
have been obtained.” 
For colts, Rossignol recommends a very simple bandage which has 
given him numerous successes; cut a branch of, willow, split it in two, 
gauge each half gutter alike and bevel the extremities ; reduce the fracture 
and cover the cannon with a pad of oakum; apply the two wooden splints 
of willow and secure them with three pieces of wire twisted on the out- 
side, one in the middle of the ‘bone, the others at each end. 
After all, fracture of the cannon is one of least gravity. It must be 
treated on animals of great value, specially if they are quiet and of small 
size; when the patient is light, the use of slings is not necessary. The 
patients ‘of Gombault, Conte, Delerte, Morand, Lucet were left loose, 
lying down and getting up without trouble. The slings are advantageous 
while treating an adult, specially if he is heavy. 
Sometimes, only one of the small metacarpal or metatarsal is broken. 
On a horse, Clichy saw it on the left hind leg. Both ends were in con- 
tact—there was no displacement. Pads of oakum with white of eggs and 
a pitch plaster were applied. After six weeks the animal was cured. 
In the case of Cauvet, the fracture of the external metatarsal of the right 
leg was complicated with that of one of the bone of the back. A suppu- 
rative arthritis killed the patient. 
