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perience is, that bandages do not agree so well with horse as with 

 human flesh. Various instruments are in use for the perform- 

 ance of this operation, which we do not deem necessary to describe 

 here. The success of the operation depends more on the skill of 

 the operator than on his tools ; for a good anatomist can at any- 

 time divide the nerve with a common penknife : in fact the thing 

 is often done. 



The reader will perceive that we have merely described the 

 operation, without entering into its details, or the anatomical 

 points involved: to place on paper all the minutia3 necessary to 

 constitute every man a neurotomist would be a work of impossi- 

 bility ; hence we advise those who desire to have their horses 

 operated on to employ a professional man. 



PLEURODYNIA. — {Inflammation of the Muscles of the Chest and fore 

 Extremities.) 



This is a disease to which the attention of veterinarians has 

 lately been called by Mr. Haycock, in his work on Veteri- 

 nary Homoeopathy, who observes, " I am perfectly satisfied as to 

 the existence of this disease, and also of its having been over- 

 looked." We have frequently treated animals presenting some 

 of the peculiar symptoms here enumerated, and, for the simple 

 reason that we had no other name for it, called it rheumatism, or 

 founder. 



The symptoms are as follows : " One great difference between 

 pleurodynia and pleurisy is, that in the former affection the dis- 

 ease exhibits little or no variation, while in pleurisy, the varia- 

 tions are remarkable, and constitute one of the principal features 

 by which it is to be distinguished or recognized. 



" In pleurodynia, the animal moves in a very rigid manner; 

 he steps short and very slow ; he is greatly dejected and cast 

 down ; the back is arched ; the skin over the surface of the body 

 exhibits great tenderness, whether he be handled roughly or deli- 

 cately ; he also grunts a good deal, and great tenderness is some- 

 times present upon one or both sides of the chest, and the skin 

 presents that state of corrugation easily recognized. The respi- 

 rations are short and limited, and the pulse will generally range 



