OPERATIONS UPON FIBROUS TISSUES. 



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weeks should elapse before the ordinary labor of the patient can 

 be resumed. The resulting wound needs no special dressing, and 

 by being thoroughly sterihzed by antiseptic manipulations, the 

 jmrts will heal without trouble. The suggestions of poultices, 

 fomentations, counter iriitation, blisters and firiag of old-time 

 surgery must be sti-ictly ignored. 



If, however, all the measures recommended for the straighten- 

 ing of the leg should fail, and, on the contrary, a tendency to an 



Pig. 334. Fig. 335. 



Figs. 33t, 335, 336.— "Various Apparatus Recommended after Tenotomy. 



excessive extension of the fetlock should be manifested, the apj)li- 

 cation of some of the various kinds of aj^paratus designed for the 

 correction of these defects may be experimentally tried, with a 



