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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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bstancesare variously compounded.Nothing, perhaps, is betterthan starch or flour mixed tothe consistence of treacle withthe white of egg. Dextrine,?S burnt alum, and alcohol is^ recommended by some; andplaster of Paris, with or with-° out flour, and reduced to tlie consistence of treacle withwater, is generally regarded as an excellent jjreparation. These appliances will require to be supplemented with some soft com-pressible substance, by which the irregularities of the limb may be filledin and the pressure of the bandages equalized over the whole circumferenceof the leg. Where this precaution is neglected there is danger of unduecompression of the more jjrominent parts, resulting in sloughing of the skinand the production of troublesome sores with their attendant evils. After setting has been completed, the limb should be kept underclose ol)servation for several days. It will sometimes be found to swellin conse(;U(Micc of injury done to the soft tissues at the time of the fracture,
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Fig. 332.—Bandaging a Fore-leg Showing the bandage completed and tied,bandage with tapes. FRACTURES 233 or from excessive pressure applied to a part or the whole in the adjust-ment of splints and bandages. In these circumstances relief must begiven to the strangulated limb either by cutting the bandages or otherwiseremoving the pressure. If it is allowed to continue, more or less extensivesloughing will result, and a complication will be added to an already seriouscondition. Compound Fracture.—Whether the fracture be simple or compound,the method employed for the reposition of the broken fragments will be thesame; but the presence of a wound, and maybe also the protrusion of aportion of the broken bone through the orifice, will give new and specialfeatures to the case which will rec^uire to be taken into account. Where a fragment of bone protrudes through the skin, a very materialdifficulty is added to the operation of reducing the fracture, and seriousinjury may have been infiict

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