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region was brought to us this year. The whole pelvis was in a 
manner crushed : the hind extremities of this dog were motion¬ 
less, and the rectum and the bladder were also powerless. After 
the cure, which was accomplished in about seventy-five days, a 
sensible contraction of the croup was observable, and the hind 
extremities were nearer to each other than before the accident. 
One of them was drawn forward, and the ischium of the opposite 
side thrust backward nearly two inches. 
The loins of this animal were evidently tender and painful at 
the time of his entrance into our infirmary; leeches were re¬ 
peatedly applied, and the part then covered with a linseed-meal 
poultice ; camphorated oil, with opium, was subsequently used as 
an embrocation; after this stimulating frictions were used ; and, 
lastly, the moxa was had recourse to. 
Most of the fractures, both in dogs and cats, were transversal, 
and the edges of the bones were not displaced. The reduction 
of such is easy; but it is not thus with compound fractures. 
The treatment consists of straight pieces of pasteboard, placed 
over soft pledgets of lint wetted with camphorated spirit, and a 
bandage rolled over all; the greatest care being taken that the 
pressure shall be equable. It is very seldom that one of these 
dressings is sufficient, or will stay in its place during the whole 
fifteen or twenty days which are requisite to form a sufficiently 
bony union; and it is necessary to replace it when any part ex¬ 
hales a foetid odour. 
When the unmanageableness of the dog, or his propensity to 
gnaw his bandage, will not allow us to keep it on a sufficient 
space of time,"we limit ourselves to producing, by means of irri¬ 
tating frictions, an inflammatory tumefaction in the fleshy parts 
which surround the fracture ; and we abandon the treatment to 
nature, and the cure is equally perfect, although frequently longer 
in being accomplished. 
10. Our pupils are daily sent for to various parts of the sur¬ 
rounding country, to assist cows in difficult parturition; and we 
may say with truth, that they have in this way rendered great 
service to agriculturists. If their attempts have not always been 
attended by success, the farmers ought, in most cases, to attri¬ 
bute their losses to the blind confidence which they had placed in 
