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PLATE VIII. 



(This drawing is made full size, from a fresh subject sent me by Mr. A. Cherry, in which neurotomy 

 had been long ago performed, on account of incurable lameness from chronic navicularthritis. ) 



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The eflfects of neurotomy are here pourtrayed. The metacarpal nerve of the off fore ^ 

 leg has heen made the subject of operation, and the bulbous enlargement con- | 

 sequent on there-union of the divided ends (through the intervention of effused ' 

 lymph) is here remarkably naturally represented. (See page 219.) To render 

 the bulbous nerve the more conspicuous, slits of whalebone have been insinuated 

 underneath it, by which it is raised a little out of its cellular bed. This was 

 not effected, however, without some difficulty, in consequence of firm adhesion ^ 

 having been discovered between the tumefied portion of nerve and the surround- < 

 ing tissue, which, from being originally cellular, had become fibrous. 



