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Fracture of the Os Pedis Treated According to Bier’s Method
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The Veterz'nary Journal.
She has now stopped from work and Mr. Taylor, my colleague, and myself examined her mouth carefully. othing was to be noted other than that sharpness of the edges of the molar teeth which was to be expected. This was attended to, and the mare was fed on slops, which she was able to swallow. Wasting now became rapid, and either a tuberculous or cancerous growth was suspected. Rectal exploration yielded no help to the diagnosi s. and the mare was tested with tuberculin but failed to act. The temperature never rose beyond 101 0 F. and the pulse remained good. No medicinal treatment was carried out, and the mare died three weeks after she had been stopped from work, her body being much emaciated, in fact a perfect wreck The post mortem showed a large tumourous growth , weighing 60 lb., situated between the stomach, liver and spleen. Mr. SheatheI' kindly examined a section and reported it to be a spindle-celled sarcoma." Was the I' quidding" due to nervous irritation from the presence of this growth, making it impossible for the act of swallowing hard food to take place? \I
FRACTURE OF THE OS PEDIS TREATED ACCORDI NG TO BIER'S METHOD. By LEMIRE
AND
DUCROTOY.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD mare showed very severe lameness after an accident at riding exercise. The hoof was very warm and sensitive, rotation mcvement caused marked pain, and no weight could be put on the leg. An injection of cocaine on both sides of the fetlock joint caused the lameness to disappear. After a few days fracture of the os pedis was diagnosed. Treatment was as follows : warm foot baths and putting on of a Bier's bandage on the middle of the metatarsus for ten hours in the day. After about twenty days a groove was made round the hoof under the coronary swelling and the ceronet sharply rubbed with embrocation. Two months after every trace of lameness had disappeared. The mare died later on from meningocephalitis. On section the state of the os pedis was examined, and it was found that there had been a triple fracture which had healed by a relief-like callus thrown out. This shows that in a phalangeal fracture use may be made of nutritive and regeneratory venous hypenemia.-Revue Vel. ,lIili/aire.
The Veterz'nary Journal.
She has now stopped from work and Mr. Taylor, my colleague, and myself examined her mouth carefully. othing was to be noted other than that sharpness of the edges of the molar teeth which was to be expected. This was attended to, and the mare was fed on slops, which she was able to swallow. Wasting now became rapid, and either a tuberculous or cancerous growth was suspected. Rectal exploration yielded no help to the diagnosi s. and the mare was tested with tuberculin but failed to act. The temperature never rose beyond 101 0 F. and the pulse remained good. No medicinal treatment was carried out, and the mare died three weeks after she had been stopped from work, her body being much emaciated, in fact a perfect wreck The post mortem showed a large tumourous growth , weighing 60 lb., situated between the stomach, liver and spleen. Mr. SheatheI' kindly examined a section and reported it to be a spindle-celled sarcoma." Was the I' quidding" due to nervous irritation from the presence of this growth, making it impossible for the act of swallowing hard food to take place? \I
FRACTURE OF THE OS PEDIS TREATED ACCORDI NG TO BIER'S METHOD. By LEMIRE
AND
DUCROTOY.
A FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD mare showed very severe lameness after an accident at riding exercise. The hoof was very warm and sensitive, rotation mcvement caused marked pain, and no weight could be put on the leg. An injection of cocaine on both sides of the fetlock joint caused the lameness to disappear. After a few days fracture of the os pedis was diagnosed. Treatment was as follows : warm foot baths and putting on of a Bier's bandage on the middle of the metatarsus for ten hours in the day. After about twenty days a groove was made round the hoof under the coronary swelling and the ceronet sharply rubbed with embrocation. Two months after every trace of lameness had disappeared. The mare died later on from meningocephalitis. On section the state of the os pedis was examined, and it was found that there had been a triple fracture which had healed by a relief-like callus thrown out. This shows that in a phalangeal fracture use may be made of nutritive and regeneratory venous hypenemia.-Revue Vel. ,lIili/aire.