‘510 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS, 
arm, perform extension and counter-extension, practice opposite pres- 
sures on the osseous displaced surfaces, such are the requirements to 
fulfil; once the reduction obtained, a pitch bandage or the mixture of 
Delwart should be applied. To prevent displacements and the decubitus, 
‘the animal should be slung. After ten days there isno danger of relapse. 
ITT.—Knee Joint. 
Luxations of the knee arerare. Ordinarily complicated with fractures, 
“tearing of ligaments and of tendons, recovery can scarcely be expected. 
‘The treatment must not be undertaken except for very valuable animals. 
In the American. Veterinary Review, Flynn has reported the case of an 
entire two years colt, which was found one morning stretched .on the 
floor, cast with his halter, the right foreleg flexed and much swollen 
-on the knee. On manipulating the leg, he could feel “the carpal bones 
-dislocated outwards, near up to the head of the external small metacar- 
pal”; the lower surfaces of the trapezium and trapezoid could be 
‘readily felt. By pressures made on the lateral faces of the joint, the 
reduction was obtained. A contentive bandage was applied. A few 
days after, the patient was placed in slings and treated by continued 
irrigation. Recovery took place without complication. 
LV.—Articulation of the Pelvis. 
The zleo-sacral luxation, very rare, is unilateral or bilateral. Walking 
is always painful; there are at the croup abnormal movements, analogous 
‘to those of the sprains of the loins (Barreau). In general, the animal 
has great difficulty to get up; paraplegia may be suspected. This 
accident brings on a deformity of the croup and a permanent lameness. 
After a difficult labor, the cow spoken of by Mollereau presented a 
_ great drooping of the sacrum in the pelvis: “the summit of the croup 
and the anterior borders of the ilium projected 10 centimeters above 
‘the body of the lumbar vertebra.” According to Weber, similar accidents 
are not rare in difficult labor and produce paraplegia. 
Solipeds should be placed in slings, bovines left at liberty. Repeated 
blistering frictions should be made on the croup, or a pitch contentive 
bandage applied.’ 
1 W. Dimond has recorded a case which occurred at the Hospital of the Amer- 
“ican Veterinary College, of a horse which had been treated for sprain of the 
muscles of the loins and recovered, when a few days later he exhibited symptoms 
-of paraplegia, lameness of the near hind leg, lancinating pains, and later on 
manifestation of meningitis. The animal was destroyed. At the post-mortem 
there was found extensive bloody infiltration of the sublumbar region, a fracture 
-of the last lumbar vertebrze, with laceration of the saro-iliac ligaments with 
-dliseased condition of the articular surfaces.—Am. Ver. Review, Vol. 9, p. 127. 
