AMPUTATION. 



139 



saved at the expense of the two fore-legs, which were becom- 

 ing gangrenous owihg to compound compHcated fractures, the 

 wounds being completely healed within ten days.i The animal 



Fis. 74.2 

 Showing two Patterns of Artificial Limb. 



soon learned to hop about like a kangaroo, and has since been 

 used successfully several times as a stud dog. 



^ "Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics," Vol. X., p. 3G2. 



'^ This figure has already appeared in the " Veterinarian," Vol. LXVIII., p. 400. 



