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CASES OF FRACTURES. 659 
7th .—He had been very tractable : when he was tired of lying 
on one side, he drew his knees under him, and then, raising him¬ 
self on his hind quarters, turned himself on the opposite side, 
without the least portion of his weight being thrown on his pas¬ 
terns. Some few turns of the bandages were loosened and dis¬ 
placed. I rectified this, and ordered that the bandage should be 
kept wet with an evaporating lotion. 
13 th ,—I again tightened the bandages. The animal now 
began to make some efforts to rise. I therefore contrived to 
suspend a sling from the roof of his stall, and raised him by 
means of it, to see what effect it would produce. He soon began 
to break out into a profuse perspiration, so that at the end of a 
quarter of an hour I was obliged to let him down. He imme¬ 
diately stretched out his limbs and his head, as it w r ere with an 
expression of pleasure, and did not move for several hours. 
I ordered them to draw him up whenever he seemed to be tired of 
lying, and not to quit him, but let him down again when he ap¬ 
peared to be uneasy in his sling. 
I did not see him again until the 26th, when I did nothing, 
except to order them still to wet his bandages occasionally with 
a spirituous lotion. 
On the 5th of June I took off the bandages for a little wdiile, 
in order to ascertain the state of the parts, and found that a 
callous substance was forming at the situation of both fractures. 
27th .—The bandages were finally removed, and the sling 
also taken away. The animal could now get up and lie down 
without aid ; but the precaution and management w 7 hich he used 
in order to effect this were admirable. I directed that the spi¬ 
rituous lotion should be continued on the pasterns, and that an 
ointment should be applied to the hoofs, which had grown con¬ 
siderably, and had become very hard. I changed his stable, 
and induced him to follow me to his new abode, by tempting 
him with a handful of oats at every step. He was exceedingly 
lame on both legs, but most so on the left. There was a con¬ 
siderable callus on each pastern, and the left one was very up¬ 
right, so that I feared that anchylosis would take place on 
account of the longitudinal direction of the fracture. I sur¬ 
rounded the feet with emollient cataplasms, in order to soften 
the horn. On the 30th, the foot w r as pared out, and a high-heeled 
shoe put on ; and on the same day I applied the cautery in a fan¬ 
like form (transcurro-inherente) over the w T hole pastern. The 
evaporating lotion was continued on the right pastern, and the 
ointment to the hoofs of both feet. 
15 th .—The effects of the cautery are already manifest: there is 
evident motion between the pastern bones, and I’have no longer 
