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amount of dead tissue on the inside of the leg than the patient 
could manage, as the skin covering the portion of the radius 
I send you was gone, and I had every reason to believe the pe¬ 
riosteum would be dead too. When the skin sloughed away, 
this proved to be the case. I used poultices occasionally, but 
mostly tepid water dressing, with lint and oiled silk; and in 
two months the half of the radius came away, and in a little 
longer time the wound healed, leaving an excellent stump. 
I kept him a good while. He could run about very well, 
and killed rats and quarrelled with his neighbours just as 
before. 
The case of fracture I had in May last (15th), occurred ac¬ 
cidentally in the field. The fracture was in the left tibia, 
oblique and compound, the lowest point being a little above 
the hock, where the sharp extremity of the superior half of 
the bone slightly protruded through the skin. 
17 th .—Swelling has subsided. The cow has milked and 
does milk very well. Reduced the fracture, and enveloped 
the leg, hock, and thigh, in thick gutta-percha, assisting it 
on the outside by a strap over the seat of the division. 
June 1^.—Steps on it. 
\Sth .—Steps firmly on it. Removed the gutta-percha in 
suspicion of maggots : there are a good many. The skin be¬ 
tween the end of the superior half of the tibia and the gutta¬ 
percha, from the inclination of the limb and consequent pres¬ 
sure, is gone by ulceration ; the end of the bone is dead, and 
covered on each side by prominent granulation; the wound 
is pretty large; the end of the dead bone is somewhat behind 
the union of the living ones. There is a little healthy sup¬ 
puration. 
2 Qd .—Part of the granulations has sloughed away. 
28 th .—Much in the same way; bone parted; she walks 
well. 
September 18 th .—Wound externally presents much the same 
appearance. The sequestrum is attached at its superior por¬ 
tion only; so that detachment has proceeded from below 
upwards. 
October 10 th .—The principal and a smaller sequestrum 
came away last week, and are lost in the field, where 1 can¬ 
not find them, otherwise I should have enclosed them. The 
wound from whence they issued will not now admit a finger. 
The callus is principally above the wound, and large; pro¬ 
trusion of the end of the dead portion prevented, of course, 
its being enclosed. The leg is only slightly qrooked, the 
animal being otherwise no worse. From first to last the pa- 
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