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FRACTURES OF THE PASTERNS. 
TRANSVERSE FRACTURE OF THE OS SUFFRAGINIS (LARGER 
PASTERN) OF THE RIGHT FORE LEG, AND LONGITUDINAL 
ONE OF THE OS CORONiE (SMALLER PASTERN) OF THE 
LEFT FORE LIMB IN THE SAME HORSE. 
By M. Gayot, Jun. 
A horse, belonging to the relay from Aure to St. Menehoud, 
fell, in going with considerable speed down a little descent, and 
one of the fore wheels of the carriage passed over his fore legs. 
He was raised on a car, and carried to Orbeval, which was not 
far distant. A veterinary surgeon being consulted, discovered 
that the pastern belonging to each leg was fractured, and advised 
that he should be destroyed. My advice was afterwards asked; 
and, considering that the horse was only five years old, that he 
was of some value, and that his keep and medical treatment 
would not cost much (for he was one of thirty horses on which I 
was in occasional attendance), it was determined that we should 
attempt to reduce the fractures. He was carried to Aure, and 
placed under my care on the 2d of May. He had not attempted 
to get up since the accident, and seemed to have suffered little 
by being thus transported from place to place, except that the sa¬ 
lient points of his body were considerably excoriated. 
Having taken off the hobbles by which his legs were confined, 
I proceeded to examine him, and the fractures were easily recog¬ 
nized. That of the larger pastern on the right leg was trans¬ 
versal, and there was neither displacement, deformity, nor short¬ 
ening ; but the mobility of the divided parts was very great, and 
the crepitus considerable. 
I had more difficulty in discovering the fracture in the left 
pastern. There was a great deal of heat about the limb, and 
some swelling round the coronet. The animal expressed great 
pain when 1 rotated the limb, and a crepitus could then be dis¬ 
tinctly heard. At length I w r as enabled to assure myself that 
the fracture was longitudinal. The horse was very tractable 
during the examination, and the people about him were disposed 
to do all they could to save him. The fractures on both legs 
were simple. I ordered the proper bandages to be prepared, and 
applied them as well as I could. 
I directed the bandages to be kept wet with an emollient lo¬ 
tion ; camphorated spirit to be applied to the excoriated parts ; 
green meat to be given, and the litter to be thick, and often 
shaken and changed. 
