The horse, its treatment in health and disease with a complete guide to breeding, training and management (1906) (14585639279)

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
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onmost favourable to reparation,and retained there largely by thewill of the patient. No such sense of self-govern-ment is available to the veterin-ary surgeon. His patient mustfor the most part support his ownweight, and cannot be made toobey the behests of his attendant.His care of the limb is just somuch as is dictated by fear of thepain which its movement excites, and the desire to use it, ever present, isalways being indulged more or less, with the result that reparation isdelayed, frequently imperfect, and not seldom altogether prevented. Itis this want of guiding intelligence, this excitability and restlessness, thatrenders bone- setting in the horse so uncertain and unsatisfactory. Among the various appliances employed for the purpose of retention,splints and bandages are the main and the most reliable. In fracture ofthe extremities the patient should always be placed in slings, and theopportunity afforded him to relieve the injured part and rest during theperiod of restraint.
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Fig. 331.—Bandaging a Fore-leg Showing the method of applying the bandage (of cotton-wool. . pad 232 HEALTH AM) DISKASE Splints have for their object the restraining of movement !))• fixing thelimb in such a way that the joints cannot be flexed. Anything which willaccomplish this without injuring the part to Avhich it is applied may beemployed for the purpose. Narrow strips of wood, thin sheet-iron or tin,leather, gutta percha, strong cardboard, pitch or other adhesive plasters,&c. To obtain the greatest possi))le l)enefit from a splint it should besufficiently long to extend over the joint above and the joint below thefracture. Of course this is not always practicable, but it should always be present to the mind of theoperator to adopt any meansin his power to restrict asmuch as possible the actionof the joints of the aftectedlimb. ^^ ^^ Movement of the fractured j ^^fc. *^ iH^H bone is best controlled by Ijan- dages soaked in some materialwhich will solidify and forman unyie