REUNION OF FRACTURED BONES. 
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racter. The influenza appeared during the whole year, and 
especially from the beginning of September to the end of Decem- 
ber. It usually assumed the appearance of inflammation of the 
lungs or liver, or, now and then, that of inflammation of the dia- 
phragm, and was almost always combined with symptoms of 
gastro-enteritis. The weakness induced by this disease was so 
great, that, in a few hours after the attack, the animal could not 
walk without staggering. This rendered it evident that the plenti- 
ful letting of blood, which in so many cases is generally beneficial, 
must not be practised here. Recourse was therefore had, in most 
cases, first to calomel, emetic tartar, Glauber’s salts, and some- 
times digitalis ; and, subsequently, to camomile flowers, valerian, 
sweet flag, camphor, turpentine and juniper-berries, and these 
were accompanied by external applications, as issues or setons, 
blisters, or mustard applications. By means of this mode of 
treatment, 163 out of 179 patients were cured and returned to 
their owners. 
Magazin fur die gesammte Thierheilkunde, 1840, part iv, p. 511 . 
ON THE POWER OF NATURE IN PRODUCING THE 
REUNION OF FRACTURED BONES. 
By Mr. J. Horsburgh, F.S., Dalkeith , N.B. 
In looking over The Veterinarian of the last year, I find 
that I am - your debtor for the concluding part of a letter on the 
reunion of fractured bones. How that debt has continued so 
long unpaid I can in no way account. To make the best amends 
in my power, I beg to add a few cases, and will begin with a 
case at home. 
A promising fillv, by Corinthian, was bred by Mr. J. Hogg, of 
Borthwick. When little more than a year old, she was removed 
from a park in which she had been grazing to another of finer 
pasture, in which were several other horses. On the next morn- 
ing she was found in a ditch, and, when taken home, could not 
put the near foot to the ground. 1 was desired to examine her, 
and found an oblique fracture of the large pastern bone. 
The owner being anxious to save her, I had her brought home, 
which was a very little distance, and ordered the parts to be en- 
veloped in a large poultice, and warm water to be constantly 
employed in order to prevent inflammation. I intended to have 
continued this for three or four days, previously to applying a 
bandage ; but, after removing the poultice for this purpose, I 
found the part very much swollen, the foot quite straight. 
