CHAPTER III. 

 APPARATUS OF -LOCOMOTION, 



The customary operations on the apparatus of locomotion are 

 almost entirely confined to the feet. They 

 consist in operations for sand-crack, picked- 

 up nail, stabs by nails and bruising of the 

 sole, elsewhere mentioned. As they call 

 for no special precautions they need not 

 be further mentioned here. 



SURGICAL DRESSING FOR A CLAW. 



The surgical dressing necessitated by the 

 operation for sand-crack, picked-up nail, or 

 injury to the heels is often very difficult to 

 fix in the ox, and necessitates a support 

 round the pastern. It can, however, be 

 secured in the following way : 



The seat of operation is covered with 

 small antiseptic pads, which are also ap- 

 plied round the pastern and in the inter- 

 digital space. A bandage is then passed 

 twice round the pastern and over the pos- 

 terior two-thirds of the claw, as in fixing 

 the dressing used after removal of the lateral 

 cartilage in the horse. The bandage is then 

 passed repeatedly round the pastern in an 

 upward direction and tied above the interdigital space. 



Fig. 295. — Dressing for claw 

 after operation. 



AMPUTATION OF THE CLAW OR OF THE TWO LAST 

 PHALANGES. 



It sometimes happens that certain grave diseases in the foot or 

 pastern (stabs or picked-up nails, panaritium of the interdigital space, 

 necrosis of the ends of the flexor tendons, etc.) ar« accompanied by 



