204 KRACTURK OF THE RIGHT HUMERUS OF A DOG. 
the bottle, but will not eat. I said that I had no hope of saving 
him, and early on the following morning he was dead. 
On laying open the oesophagus from the pharynx downwards, 
on arriving within a few inches from the cardiac orifice, I was 
surprised to find a large-sized hen egg entirely whole and firmly 
fixed in the passage : the parietes of the oesophagus, where the 
egg lay, were very much dilated and ulcerated nearly through. 
The groom, who was present, immediately confessed he had given 
the egg a few hours before I was sent for, as he understood they 
w'ere good to improve his condition. The balls which were 
given must have dissolved and passed by the egg, as also would 
the gruel. 
A CASE OF FRACTURE OF THE RIGHT HUMERUS 
OF A DOG. 
By M, Delaguette. 
A BEAUTIFUL bloodhound, trained to the chase of the wild 
boar, was wounded bv a ball just as he had fastened on one of 
these animals in the forest of Marly. The ball struck him in a 
direction from behind forwards, and fractured the right humerus. 
Every sportsman was interested about this unfortunate dog, and 
especially the Count D’Artois, by whom he had been wounded, 
and he was brought to me a few hours after the accident. 
I examined the wound of Tout-beau, a name wdiich he merited 
on account of his beautiful form and excellent qualities, (the 
wound had not made him quit his hold). The ball had broken 
the body of the humerus all to pieces. I made the wound 
as nearly a simple one as I could, by detaching and removing 
every portion of bone that was loose : I cut off every sharp or 
irregular portion that remained, and the wound was afterwards 
covered with pledgets dipped in equal quantities of brandy and 
water, and I applied a bandage to retain the dressings in their 
proper situation. 
It was summer; the weather was sultry, and fearing the con¬ 
sequences of a wound so complicated, and doubting the possi¬ 
bility of the re-union of the two ends of the bone, my first intention 
was to amputate the limb at the scapulo-humeral joint; but as 
the troop in which I served was ordered to Paris on the following 
day, and it was impossible that those measures could afterwards 
be pursued which such an operation required, I at length deter¬ 
mined to confine myself to the seconding of those means which 
Nature might point out, and the result beautifully displayed her 
matchless power. 
