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two cases in one hundred operations, and on each occasion the compH- 

 cation was produced by an injury to the foot. 



M. Nocard, between 1880 and 1886, performed about one thousand 

 neurectomies without a single accident. This is practically the best 

 recorded series. M. Comeny, who often performed high double 

 neurectomy, never saw after complications in his patients. 



Benjamin and Redon give the history of a horse in which high 

 double neurectomy was followed by periostosis of the pastern, obstinate 



Fig. 10. — Moist gangrene of the foot after plantar neurectomy above the fetlock. 



ulceration of the skin, and other changes which necessitated slaughter. 

 In one instance M. Jacoulet saw, two months after operation, inflam- 

 mation of the tissues of the phalanx, with enormous swelling and 

 superficial ulceration of the skin. In a horse suffering from large ring- 

 bones, which had resisted firing, M. Trasbot, after unsuccessfully per- 

 forming low double neurectomy, proceeded to divide the plantar nerves 

 above the fetlock. Three days later the coronet became greatly 



