ACCIDENTS AND OPERATIONS. 



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tance apg.rt ; a bull, and mastiff, aged, with fraeture of the 

 femur in three distinct places. Both were treated with splint- 

 setting, and recovered perfectly, without any deformity or 

 perceptible thickening, except on manipulation. 



Fracture of the scapula is occasionally met with, chiefly, 

 in small toy dogs, and is usually caused from tumbles down 

 Stairs or from elevated positions. I have treated two (the 

 only ones brought under my care) successfully ; both were 

 fractured at the neck of the bone. Two pasteboard splints 

 smeared with pitch were placed parallel, and a quarter of an 

 inch apart and obliquely; another was then applied cross- 

 ways, and a pitch-plaster on sheepskin covered them and the 

 whole shoulder (Fig. 35). I then passed a bandage, com- 

 mencing from the centre of the shoulder across the withers, 

 to the other side under the brisket back again, and so on, 

 several times securing it in its situation with pitch (Fig. 36). 



On the 24th of May, 1877, a cub fox belonging to Mrs. 

 Boughey, five weeks old, nursed by hand, was brought to me 



Fig. 36. 

 Fracture of Scapula, with Bandage applied. 



suffering from comminuted fracture of the scapula. I set it 

 in the same manner as above described, with one exception. 

 The injury had taken place some days previously , in addition 

 to the fracture there was luxation of the shoulder-joint, which 



