DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE 403 
can hear the bones grating on each other. In slight cases the 
animal is able to get up all right, but will be stiff and sore. 
In most of these cases the animal coughs a little, and breathes 
short and quick. 
Treatment. — All that is needed is quietness, good care 
and nutritious food. If not able to rise turn it over from 
side to side twice a day. If the rib is broken so badly that 
it penetrates the lung and sets up inflammation there is no 
hope of recovery. 
6. Fracture of the Shoulder Blade. 
Fracture of these bones is indicated by the extreme lame- 
ness and pain it causes. On moving the leg you can hear the 
bones grating on each other. In a case of this kind it is best 
to destroy the animal, but if the fracture is not so severe, and 
the patient young, keep it very quiet, feed well, and it will 
come all right in the course of time. The less you bother 
with it the better. 
7. Broken Bones Below the Knee or Below the Hpck. 
Symptoms. — There is crookedness of the leg, lameness 
and extreme pain. When you move the leg you can hear the 
bones grating on each other. 
Treatment. — Place the patient in a quiet place, set the 
leg in shape, and have some one to hold it while you bandage 
it with a starched bandage — a long strip of cotton dipped in 
starch used for starching clothes. On drawing the bandage 
out of the starch draw it between your fingers to clean out as 
much of the starch as you can, then wrap it moderately tight 
around the leg. Put plenty of the bandage on, and have some 
one hold the leg and bandage straight for an hour or so until 
the starch hardens. After this the bandage will hold the leg 
to its place. Leave it on four or five weeks until the bones 
are healed. Keep the animal quiet until the bones are well 
knit together. If the leg should swell with this bandage take 
it off and put it on looser. 
Fractures above the knee are sometimes treated by this 
method, but not nearly so successfully. 
