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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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ctly quiet. So soon as he begins to throw his weight upon the limb, and to con-tinue it, the bandage may be removed. JNIore or less enlargement willbe found to have developed on the bone in the form of a reparative callus,and subsequent treatment must be directed towards effecting its reduction.For this purpose a repetition of blisters must be applied over the partduring a continuance of rest. In some cases a large ring-bone, with moreor less lameness, remains as a permanent result of the fracture, while inothers but little enlargement follows, and the action is in no respectaffected by it. FRACTURE OF THE SESAMOID BONES Fracture of the sesamoid bones is by no means of uncommon occurrence.It happens most frequently in old hunters and chasers when carryingheavy weights over deep ground, and mostly at the end of a long andtiring run. The line of the fracture is usually transverse. Sometimes the accidentis confined to one l)ono. but more frecjuently it involves both, and now PLATE XXXIX.
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