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H. THOMPSON. 
The owner, thinking it nothing but a severe sprain, 
turned her loose. But not improving after a week’s time, I 
was called in and found the above condition, the leg being 
swollen from foot to elbow. 
Not having brought slings and being twenty-two miles 
•from home, I took two singletrees and a piece of rag-carpet 
and erected a set of slings, using a common buggy harness. 
Washed the leg with a solution of hydrarg bichlor., i to 1,000, 
packed the hollow of the heel with cotton-batting and bound 
the limb with strips torn from a sheet. I then took some 
pieces of shingles and cut them the desired width and length 
and splinted the parts. In seven weeks I removed the 
bandages and rubbed all the limbs with lin. saponis, as she 
appeared to be stiff, and let her out of the slings. This was 
in the summer; by spring she was able to go to the plow and 
do a full day’s work. 
Case II. Brown mare, transverse simple fracture of 
ulna caused by being kicked. This being a place impossible 
to bandage, I put her in slings and putting on a blanket, 
strapped it on in front and around the chest, back of the elbow, 
first washing the parts with the bichloride solution. 
In six weeks called to see the animal, as the owner said 
she wanted to get out of the slings. Found the parts strongly 
united and took her out of the slings, and after a run of six 
months she was taken up and put in front of a sewing 
machine wagon and rendered valuable service. In a year’s 
time absorption of the parts had taken place so that the in¬ 
jury was hardly noticeable. 
Case III. A fine gray Percheron mare, weight between 
1600 and 1700 lbs. Found an oblique fracture of the hum¬ 
erus, the shoulder and leg being much swollen. I had her 
put in slings with a blanket strapped over the injury, and had 
the parts constantly wet with hot water. In a week’s time 
stopped the hot applications and put on a dry blanket 
strapped as before, and put a bandage around the whole chest 
and over the injury. Left her in the slings about eight weeks 
and she made a good recovery. This injury was caused by 
running against a tree and then sliding about ten feet. 
