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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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not connected withan external wound; where such awound exists and communicates withit the fracture becomes a compoundone (fig. 329). If instead of the bone being brokeninto two parts it is divided into threeor more — smashed — a corwrninutedfracture results (fig. 325). It sometimes happens that whena bone is broken the broken end ofone piece is driven into that of theother. Such a fracture is said to beimpacted (fig. 328). Bones break in various directions;hence fractures are spoken of as trans-verse, longitudinal, or ohliipie (fig.326). A transverse fracture follows a line at a right angle with the shaftof the bone. This is a comparatively rare form of breakage, but is some-times seen in the scapula, the ilium, the olecranon or elbow, and thecalcaneus, or point of the hock. Great importance attaches to the relations which the two or morebroken pieces maintain towards each other after the fracture has takenplace. In some instances they continue to remain in their natural position
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Fig. 32.).—Fractures1, Simple. 2, Comminuted. 222 HEALTH AND DISEASE throughout the healing process, a couditiou favourable of course to re-paration, and very much to be desired. In others, however, the fracture is accompanied or followed by moreor less displacement of the divided parts, and all the bad consequenceswhich attach to it. This separation of the broken pieces may result from the same cause,and at the same time, as the fracture, or it may occur some time afterwardsby the weight of the body forcing the parts asunder; or by movement, oras a result of the contraction of muscles which are attached to them. The liability to displace-ment is much greater insome bones than in others.In the canon it is almostinvariable, while in the pas-tern it is comparatively rare.This difference will be bestunderstood by reference tofig. 327, where it will be seenthat nearly the whole of thefront and back of the pasternbones, and to a less extentthe sides, have attached tothem strong ligaments

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