. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . thismuscle terminated at the upper head of the metacarpus parvus externus, the actionof the extensor muscle thus terminating at the knee, and the fetlook knuckled overfrom the want of the support of its tendon. LUXATIONS. 145 mon occurrence in running dogs, especially greyhounds,easily reduced, but is very apt to return. It is DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRA WITHOUT FRACTURE. An animal, in August 1871, was found unable to rise onemorning, but with some assistance was got on to its feet, when theneck, which had been previously all right
. The principles and practice of veterinary surgery . thismuscle terminated at the upper head of the metacarpus parvus externus, the actionof the extensor muscle thus terminating at the knee, and the fetlook knuckled overfrom the want of the support of its tendon. LUXATIONS. 145 mon occurrence in running dogs, especially greyhounds,easily reduced, but is very apt to return. It is DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL VERTEBRA WITHOUT FRACTURE. An animal, in August 1871, was found unable to rise onemorning, but with some assistance was got on to its feet, when theneck, which had been previously all right, presented the appear-ance shown in the annexed woodcut (Fig. 18). Four days after-wards it was sent to the College, a distance of about two miles,for my opinion. The animal (an old mare) walked with a slightstaggering gait, knuckled over occasionally at the fetlocks, couldeat well, and move the head up and down with a moderatedegree of freedom. There was no swelling of the soft parts frombruising or inflammation, the prominence of the curve being. -^..3:^ Fig. 18. hard bone. Upon attempting to straighten the neck, the animalwould become paralyzed in the limbs, this paralysis passing awaywhen the pressure was removed from the neck. Being very old,she was ordered to be destroyed. When the neck was stretched lie PARTICULAE FRACTUKE3. by a cord to the wall, previous to the division of the carotidartery, she fell paralyzed, and died before she was bled. The post Tnortem revealed that the luxation had been reducedby the stretching; that the fibro-cartilaginous disc, between thethird and fourth cervical vertebrae, was in a pulpy condition jthat the spinal cord and its surroundings were but slightlyaffected; and that there was no fracture. This case proves thatthere can be luxation without fracture; that such a lesion doesnot prove fatal if the spinal cord is not pressed upon; and thatreduction—causing pressure upon the cord—may be followed byimmediate death. I have heard of simi
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