454 DISEASES OF THE HORSE'S FOOT 



Malcolm's treatment of canker, 

 316 



McGill's sand-crack clamp, 172 



Median neurectomy, gg 



Metal plates in the treatment of 

 sand-crack, 173 



Metastatic colic in laminitis, 268 



Metastatic pneumonia in lamin- 

 itis, 268 



Methods of applying poultices, 

 86 

 of examining the foot, 70, 



7?, 74 



of immobilizing sand-crack 

 by grooving the wall, 178 

 Methods of restraint, 77^ 



of securing a hind-limb with 



the side-line, 78, 7g 

 of securing the foot to the 

 cannon of another limb, 

 81, 82 

 Meyer's treatment of chronic 



laminitis, 2gi 

 Moist corn, ig5 



Nail-bound, 205 



causes of, 205 



definition of, 20S 



symptoms of, 206 



treatment of, 206 

 Nail-tread, 207 

 Navicular bone, the, 12 



fracture of, 216 

 Navicular bursa, puncture of the, 



in pricked foot, 216 

 Navicular bursa punctured, treat- 

 ment of, 227 

 Navicular disease, 427 



causes of, 433 



changes in the bone in, 43 l 



changes in the bursa in, 42g 



changes in the cartilage in, 

 430 



changes in the tendon in, 431 



definition of, 427 



diagnosis of, 437 



differential diagnosis of, 441 



history of, 428 



in the hind-feet, 441 



point of commencement of, 

 428 



prognosis of, 443 



symptoms of, 437 



treatment of, 443 

 Necrosed lateral cartilage, 



pathological anatomy of, 339 

 Necrosis of bone, 387 



of tendon and ligament in 

 subhorny quittor, 340 



of the lateral cartilage (car- 

 tilaginous quittor), 337 

 Necrotic plantar aponeurosis, 



treatment of, 222 

 Nerve, reunion of, after neu- 

 rectomy, tc.s 

 Nerves, the, 28 



Neurectomy, advantages of, 107 

 amputational neuroma in, 



104 

 fracture of the bones after, 



104 

 gelatinous degeneration after, 



102 

 history of, 91 



instruments required in, 96 

 in laminitis, 292 

 length of rest required after, 



ioj 

 persistent pruritus after, 104 

 pricked foot after, 101 

 reunion of divided nerve 



after, 105 

 sequela? of, 101 

 stumbling after, 107 

 use of the horse after, no 

 Neurectomy, median, gg 



plantar, gi 

 Neuroma, amputational, after 

 neurectomy, 104 



(Edema of the leg after neu- 

 rectomy, 104 

 Opening the sole in the treat- 

 ment of laminitis, 277 

 Operation for complicated sand- 

 crack, 180 

 for laminitis, 278 

 for necrosed lateral cartilage 



in quittor, 351 

 for necrosed plantar apon- 

 eurosis, 222 

 for side-bone, 372 

 Operations on the foot, instru- 

 ments required in, 83 

 Operations on the horn, treat- 

 ment of contracted foot by, 

 137 

 Os coronse, the, 7 



dislocation of, 447 

 fracture of, 402 

 Os pedis, the, g 



caries of, in pricked foot, 



217 

 fracture of, 407 

 Osteoplastic ostitis, 387 

 Osteoplastic periostitis, 384 

 Ostitis in laminitis, 269 



