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FRACTURE OF THE SCAPULA. 
/iy Mr. Fuller, F. .S’., March. 
On the 2d instant, I was requested to see a thoroughbred 
filly, the property of Mr. John Tibbett, of Doddington Fen, 
who informed me, that, on his return from St. Ives' market, she 
fell suddenly lame of the near leg, when galloping at about three- 
quarter speed. He immediately dismounted, at which time he 
was about nine miles from home. With great difficulty he in¬ 
duced her to walk to within one mile of his house, when she lay 
down much exhausted. Mr. T. then procured a sledge, and got 
her home that evening, and fomented the shoulder the greater 
part of the night. 
On the following morning, when I saw her, I readily disco¬ 
vered that the scapula was fractured in a transverse direction. 
I immediately placed her in slings; after which, the near foot 
was kept from the ground by means of a kneeband, and the 
fracture was easily reduced. I then applied about twenty yards 
of flannel bandage with a compress upon the fracture, and ordered 
her to have bran mashes until I saw her again. 
On visiting her on the following morning, I was informed that 
she had been out of the slings, and had undone all that I had 
applied the day before. I again suspended her, but with no 
better result, for she appeared determined not to submit to the 
confinement. 
Other expedients were tried, but she was perfectly unmanage¬ 
able; and on the fifth day after the accident symptoms of tetanus 
came on. Seeing no probability of her recovery, she was destroyed. 
I examined the shoulder after death, and found the muscles 
about the fracture dreadfully lacerated. 
The annexed drawing is a rough sketch of the fracture. 
