344 The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser. 



is heard apply a strong bandage to above the fetlock. II 

 no grating sooth the early inflammation for a day or two 

 then render the parts immovable by a smart blister on tha 

 front and sides of the pastern from the hoof to the fetlock 

 Such cases usually do well, though if the fracture extends 

 into a joint the recovery is likely to be imperfect. 



In the smaller animals bandages are requisite for fract- 

 ure of the digital bones. 



BONY GROWTHS ON THE PASTEKN BONES. KINGBONES. 



These usually begin as inflammation of the membrane 

 covering the bones, and at such points as give attachment 

 to ligaments, namely : the lateral aspects of the lower or 

 small pastern bone, and of the lower end of the upper or 



Fig. 68. 



yig. 68 — Ringbones — high and low. The rough irregular deposits of nev> 

 bone are shown on the lateral parts of the large and small pastern bones 

 respectively. 



large bone. There is a circumscribed, tender and some- 

 what elastic swelUng, with more or less soft, doughy en- 

 gorgement of the investing soft parts, and in course ol 

 time the exuded matter, at first soft, becomes hard and 



