INDEX 



455 



Plantar cushion, the, 32 

 Plantar neurectomy, 91 



historj' of, 91 



instruments required in, 96 



operation of, 92 

 Pneumonia in laminitis, metastatic, 



268 

 Point of commencement of navicular 



disease, 428 

 Poultices, methods of applying, 86 

 Preventive treatment of cutaneous 



quittor, 333 

 Pricked foot, 207 



after neurectomy, 101 



complications of, 214 

 Prognosis in acute simple coronitis, 

 234 



in canker, 314 



in contracted foot, 124 



in corn, 196 



in laminitis, 271 



in navicular disease, 443 



in punctured foot, 217 



in sand-crack, 169 



in simple cutaneous quittor, 

 332 

 Properties of horn, chemical, 58 

 Protection of sand-crack by metal 



plates, 173 

 Pruritus after neurectomy, 104 

 Pumiced foot, 146 



causes of, 146 



definition of, 146 



symptoms of, 146 



treatment of, 147 

 Punctured foot, 207 



causes of, 207 



classification of, 207 



common situation of the wound 

 in, 209 



complications in, 214 



defiiiition of, 207 



diagnosis of, 210 



prognosis of, 217 



symptoms of, 210 



treatment of, 219 

 Puncture of the navicular bursa. 

 215 



treatment of, 227 

 Puncture of the pedal articulation, 



216 

 Purulent synovitis, 417 

 Pyramidal disease, 395 



guittor, 329 



classification of, 329 



definition of, 329 

 Quittor, simple or cutaneous, 330 



causes of, 330 



complications in, 332 



(Juittor, simple or cutaneous — eon- 

 tinucd 



curative treatment of, 333 



definition of, 330 



pathological anatomy of, 332 



preventive treatment of, 333 



prognosis of, 332 



symptoms of, 331 



treatment of, 333 

 Quittor, sub-horny, 335 



causes of, 335 



complications in, 337 



definition of, 335 



diagnosis of, 336 



extirpation of the lateral carti- 

 lage in, after Moller and Frick, 

 353 



extirpation of the lateral carti- 

 lage in, after Bayer, 355 



necrosis of the lateral cartilage 

 in (cartilaginous quittor), 337 



necrosis of tendon and ligament 

 in (tendinous quittor), 340 



surgical shoeing in, 364 



symptoms of, 336 



treatment of, 342 



Rarefying ostitis, 386 

 Recorded case of dislocation of the 

 OS coronae, 447 

 of navicular disease in both 



hind-feet, 441 

 of periostitis, 389 

 of pyramidal disease, 397 

 Rest required after neurectomy, 



length of, 101 

 Restraint, methods of, 77 

 Reunion of the divided nerve after 



neurectomy, 105 

 Ringbone, low. 

 Ringed hoof, 149 

 causes of, 149 

 definition of, 149 

 treatment of, 150 

 Rocker bar shoes in laminitis, 274 

 Rose's treatment of canker, 322 



Sand-crack, 161 

 causes of, 161 

 clamp, Koster's, 173 



McGill's, 172 



Vachette's, 171 

 clamping, methods of, 171 

 classification of, 161 

 complications in, 168 

 definition of, 161 

 operations for complicated, 180 

 prognosis in, 169 

 surgical shoeing for, 175 



