. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . Fig. 339. -ObliqueFracture of Suffra-ginis. 250 HEALTH AND DISEASE If the foot be rotated or forcibly Hexed on the fetlock, crepitus orrubbing of the broken pieces will be felt. Great sensibility to pressurealong the surface of the bone soon appears, accompanied by a firm diffusedswelling. In split pastern the lameness, although sometimes considerable,is less severe, and there is usually no crepitus. The swelling may beinconsiderable, and the existence of a fracture altogether overlook
. The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . Fig. 339. -ObliqueFracture of Suffra-ginis. 250 HEALTH AND DISEASE If the foot be rotated or forcibly Hexed on the fetlock, crepitus orrubbing of the broken pieces will be felt. Great sensibility to pressurealong the surface of the bone soon appears, accompanied by a firm diffusedswelling. In split pastern the lameness, although sometimes considerable,is less severe, and there is usually no crepitus. The swelling may beinconsiderable, and the existence of a fracture altogether overlooked. Treatment.—No time should be lost in placing the animal in shoe should be removed, and the stable littered with 3 or 4 inchesof saw-dust or peat-moss. If there is no displacement, which will bereadily determined by the undisturbed outline of the pastern, a starchbandage should be applied at once. In making the application, thehollow of the heel should first be filled in with a pad of tow, over which the bandage should be rolled and carriedover the fetlock joint from the coronet,nearly as high as the knee. In those casesin which di
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