PLANTAR NEUROTOMY. 



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Fig. 464.— Blunt 

 Tenaculum, witli 

 Elastic Band. 



Fig. 465.— Blunt 

 Tenaculum, 



Fig. 466.— Eight and Left Neurotomes. 



and the surgeon and his attendants. We fully agree with the 

 admitted rule that animals undergoing surgical operations should 

 be thrown and properly secured. We, with other practitioners, 

 however, have succeeded so well in obtaining complete local an- 

 esthesia by the use of cocaine, that it has enabled us to perform 

 the operation in the standing position. We, nevertheless, can 

 scarcely see the necessity for general anesthesia when, as we be- 

 heve, the intense pain which occm's the moment of the division 

 of the nerve can be mitigated by careful local anesthesia after the 

 nerve is exposed, should the operator think it necessary. A careful 

 consideration of the various methods recommended for securing 

 an animal, when cast for operation, has induced us to adoj)t the 

 following as the simplest, the safest and the easiest to apply and 

 control: The animal is thrown upon the side of the leg which is 

 to be operated upon, and, both legs being bound together above 

 the knee with a few twists of a flat rope in the form of a figure 8, 

 the leg to be treated is removed from the hobble and drawn 



