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FRACTURE OF THE SESAMOID BONES: Border Lass, aged, broke down (fractured the sesamoid bones of both forelegs) at Ringmer Steeplechase, April 10, 1889. Photograph taken seven weeks later.

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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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FRACTURE OF THE SESAMOID BONES Border Lass, aged, broke down (fractured tlie sesainoid bones of both fore-legs) atRingnter Steeplechase, April lo. 1889. F^hotograph taken seven weeks later FRACTURE OF THE BONES OF THE FORE EXTREMITY 251 and again it occurs to both fore-limbs at the same time. Tlie bone maybreak through the middle, or a piece of the upper angle only may betorn away from the rest. The fracture sometimesfollows upon repeated chronic sprain to the suspen-sory ligament, and there is reason to think thatin these cases the cohesion of the bone has beendiminished by an extension of the inflammatoryaction from the ligament to the bone to which itis attached, for it fre()^uently occurs that prior tobreakage the sesamoid bones have been for sometime more or less enlarged. Slipping and falsesteps in making sharp turns are sometimes account-able for this injury. It has been said that the accident is quite aslikely to happen while the horse is at rest in hisstall as under any circu

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