File:The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1906) (14772289835).jpg

Identifier: horseitstreatm05axej (find matches)
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.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
mostly associated with brokenknees, and assumes the form of a compoundfracture, complicated with inflammation ofthe joint and damage to tendons which passover it. Fractures here are attended with great painand sufiering and much constitutional dis-turbance. There is free discharge of synoviaor joint oil, inability to support weight onthe affected limb, and considerable swelling.In other than animals of considerable valuefor stud purposes the result of treatment,however successful it may be, will not be suchas to compensate for the time and trouble which these cases demand.The knee invariably sufiers irreparable damage, and the animal remains acripple for the rest of his life. Where treatment is resorted to, the horse must be placed in slings,and splints and bandages employed to maintain the joint in a state of rest,while at the same time provision should be made in the bandaging for thefree discharge of matter from the wound in the knee, which must be treatedon antiseptic principles.
Text Appearing After Image:
Fig. 337.—Iron Splint for Fractures ofthe Fore-limb A, A, Screws for adjusting the lengthof the Splint. 248 HEALTH AND DISEASE FRACTURE OF THE METACARPAL BONES In adult and aged horses the metacarpal bone.s are generally unitedtogether by ossific union, and it results from this, when fracture occurs, that all the bones are involved in it.In colts, where they are united byligaments only, each one of them maybe broken independently of the others,but such an occurrence is very occa-sional. Fracture of these bones (fig. 326,p. 222) is mostly brought about bykicks, jumping into deep hard roads,l)lows against fences and walls, andslijDS, &c. The absence of muscles in thisregion, and the opportunity thusafforded of a clear view and thoroughmanipulation of the part, renders diag-nosis an easy matter when displace-ment has occurred. The bone will beseen to bend at the seat of fracturewhen any attempt is made to putweight upon it. In progression, thatpart of the limb below the breach hasc

Note About Images