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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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and when the groom returned to him andcaused him to rise, the broken fragments parted, and not till then was theexistence of a fracture made known. The horse was destroyed, and a post-mortem examination showed bothbones to be broken into several pieces. The means by which fractures are reduced or set will vary with theseat and nature of the displacement. Some are altogether beyond rectifi-cation. This is especially the case in the bones of the spine, and in somebones to which large muscles are attached. By the latter the broken parts FRACTURES 229 arc prevontcd from being brought together, or they are pulled away fromeach other by forcible contraction when this has been effected. This is very much the case in fracture of the thigh and the humerus. It is more especially in bones below these, and others about the fece,that success may be hoped for. In the absence of a properly-constructed operating-table, by which ahorse can be taken otf the ground while in a standing posture and again
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Fig. 330.—Fracture of First Rib of Horse (Inner Aspect)1, Showing Fracture. 2, Repair of Fracture. 3, The same in section. A, Fracture. B, E, Callus. replaced directly on his feet, the reduction of a fracture in so large anduncontrollable an animal as the horse is in the last degree difficult. AVithout some restraining influence the pain excited by the manipula-tion of the parts is such as to provoke the most violent opposition. Toprevent this the animal must either be cast and placed under restraint, orhis resistance mu.st be overcome by the administration of a powerful seda-tive, or of chloroform or some other ansesthetic. Whichever course isadopted he will require to be brought to the ground, and after the fi-acturehas been adjusted, to rise again. In the one act the damage may be seriously aggravated, and in theother the work of setting may be completely undone. In dealing with fracture of the pasterns, canons, and other long bones. 230 HEALTH AND DISEASE a powerful oj^iate or a

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