378 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
be again fastened up,—more firmly, if possible, than before 
a liberal diet allowed, and tonics administered. If at the 
expiration of seven or eight weeks the false joint still exists, 
and there appears no prospect of its being otherwise, unless 
other measures are adopted, inflammatory action is to be 
established in the false union with the object of exciting the 
formation of osseous material, and this may be done by 
piercing the structure in various places with a sharp needle, 
and moving the point about when imbedded there until it 
is considered that sufficient irritation has been produced. 
The limb is then bound up as before. 
Certain constitutional conditions of an animal have a 
tendency to'retard the formation of new bone (scrofula or 
rickets, to wit). In such diatheses, mineral tonics and bone- 
Fic. 37. 
DEFORMED LIMB AFTER UNION OF FRACTURE, NECESSITATING 
RE-FRACTURE, 
making materials should be freely exhibited ; in the latter, 
lime-water and milk should be given to the “atimal to lap 
in the place of water. 
Re-fracture.—From nature being allowed, without assist- 
ance, to effect the union of a fractured limb, or from care- 
