LUXATION OF THE PHALANGES. 
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a wooden splint fastened to the metacarpus by straps. Treatment was 
directed to moderating inflammation, and later a dressing and wooden 
splint, provided with a hinge over the fetlock-joint, were applied. 
Schellhase has seen similar cases. In one it was possible not only to 
place the os suftraginis at a right angle with the large metacarpal, but a 
Figs. 221-222. «, .External lateral ligament of pastern-joint; b, intersesamoidean ligament; 
c, superior sesamoidean ligament ; d, middle limb of inferior sesamoidean ligament ; d', lateral 
limb ol inferior sesamoidean ligament ; e, cruciate ligament; /, lateral sesamoidean ligament ; 
g, outer lateral ligament ol the pastern-joint ; h and A', posterior corono-suffraginal liga¬ 
ments ; i, outer lateral ligament of pedal-joint; Tc, postero-lateral ligaments of navicular 
bone ; l, fibrous sheath of synovial membrane of coffin-joint. 
wound existed which admitted the finger between the os suffraginis 
and metacarpal bone; nevertheless, recovery occurred. Such cases, 
are, however, quite exceptional. As a general rule the horse must be 
destroyed. 
Luxation may occur spontaneously, or without any particularly violent 
effort. A pure-bred stallion showed very severe lameness alternately in 
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