508 VETERINARY SURGICAL. THERAPEUTICS. 
indicated to keep him for some time in slings to avoid the displacement 
of the bandage. -This generally drops off .after some twenty days. 
There is no inconvenience in allowing the horse to takea little exercise ; 
relapse is not to be feared, and the best way to avoid ankylosis and 
amyotrophy is to make the joint work. Generally in a month or six 
weeks recovery is complete ; in few cases does it take longer. Moller 
advises destroying, after ten or fifteen days, if there is no improvement. 
With small animals, recovery is generally easy. ‘The reduction once: 
operated, a pitched bandage is applied like that recommended by Del- 
wart for fractures of the scapula and of the humerus. 
LIT.— Humero—Radio—Cubital Joint.- 
Notwithstanding its powerful ligaments, luxation of this articula~ 
tion can take place. A violent kick on the external face of the: 
elbow may produce the lateral deviation of the articular surfaces. 
(Peuch). A similar accident may follow a fall, when the leg is carried in. 
abduction, in adduction, or if caught under a wheel (Lafosse, Soumille). 
The mule of Lapouse,’ loaded with three hectoliters of wheat, slipped. 
and fell. On a first examination, the author remarked that the whole 
lower part of the left leg, from the elbow down, had a direction perpen- 
dicular to the median line of the body. “The superior extremity of 
the forearm was thrown inwards and beyond the. condyle of the 
humerus ; the lower extremity of this bone was resting on the external. 
face of the superior extremity of the forearm and of ‘thé point of the: 
olecranon.” ‘The horse treated by Decroix had a fall on the left side, the: 
left leg bent under the shoulder, between it and the ground. When the 
animal was up, it was observed that the forearm was oblique, forward. 
and outward, while from the fetlock, the foot hada vertical direction. It 
was easy, by exploration, to observe the overlapping of the surfaces of the 
bones ; the articular head of the radius projected outwards and that of 
the humerus inwards. 
Lafosse and Soumille have published observations of luxations of 
the elbow in dogs. On the collie dog treated by Lafosse, the humeral’ 
trochlea was projecting outwards and the articular surface of the radius. 
inwards. The subject cured by Soumille presented, at the external and. 
superior face of the forearm, a large swelling formed by the extremity 
of the radius; and on the internal face, a wound exposing the inner 
condyle of the humerus. 
The deformity of the articulation and the immobility of the surface: 
1 Lapouse : Journal des Veter. du Midi, 1842, p.. 180. 
