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OPERATIONS ON BONES. 



Fractures of the Coronet. — Though these are generally of the 

 comminuted kind, there are often conditions associated with 

 them which justify the surgeon in attempting their treatment. 

 Though crepitation is not always easy to detect, the excessive 

 lameness, the soreness on pressure, the inability to carry weight, 

 the difficulty experienced in raising the foot, all these suggest, as 

 the solution of the question of diagnosis, the fracture of the 

 coronet, with the accompanying realization of the fact that there 

 is yet, by reason of the situation of the member, immobihzed as it 

 is by its structure and its surroundings, room left for a not im- 

 favorable prognosis. Only a slight manipulation will be needed 

 in the treatment of this lesion. To render the immobility of the 



Fig. 2m. 



-Animal with Fracture iaelow the knee witU Spints and Support, 

 Besting in Slings. 



