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Title: The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London, Gresham Pub. Co.
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ned use which theanimal has been allowed to make of the injured limb after the occurrenceof the accident. A horses highest intelligence fails to realize the advan-tage of that perfect quiet upon which the surgeon sets so much store, inguarding against an extension of the injury and in bringing about itsreparation. The moment a fracture is suspected every means should be adopted atonce to restrain the animals movements, and to provide as far as possibleagainst any undue use or disturbance of the injured limb. If away from home, a splint should be extemporized, and the horse gotinto the stable nearest to hand and allowed to remain there while undertreatment. If an ambulance cart can be procured without much delay, itwould be desirable to convey him at once wherever he may require to go;l)ut it should be kept in mind that the success of treatment is greatlyfacilitated by the speedy readjustment of the broken bone. The prospect of treatment—as to whether it is likely to be successful or
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Fig. 329.—An Example of Compound Fracture 228 HEALTH AND DISEASE Otherwise—will depend upon a variety of circumstances, all of which shouldbe well considered before a decision is arrived at. The position of the bone and the nature of the fracture will claim atten-tion first. A simple fracture without displacement is not a serious matter,unless it occurs in the immediate neighbourhood of a joint, to which thereparative inflammation may extend and occasion some permanent inter-ference with its movements. Compound and comminuted fractures are always more serious thansimple ones, and in all the danger is greatly aggravated where the tissuesin the region of the breakage are much bruised or torn, especially wherelarge nerves and vessels are divided by the broken ends of the bone. Allthese are matters which impart to a fracture in such an uncontrollablesubject as the horse a dangerous and discouraging outlook. A young horse, with a sound constitution and a quiet generous tem-perament, is

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