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the ligature, is cut through with one short cut, and a piece 
about the length of 1.5 cm. is taken off the peripherial stump. 
Should any hemorrhage show itself now, owing to a small 
vein or artery being injured, or even if a lateral artery of the 
toe having been cut through, it is simply undertied with sub- 
limate silk, otherwise these incidents are of no importance. 
After a liberal rinsing out of the wound with sublimate water, 
I suture the wound with sublimate silk, making close stitches. 
Cut through the other branch of the nerve in the same manner 
as above described, and after the horse stands up, I put on a 
moist sublimate bandage. To this we add a few layers of 
absorbent cotton saturated with sublimate water around the 
leg, extending from the hoof half way up the metacarpus, 
which are tightened with closely placed bands. 
The after treatment consists of a moistening of the bandage 
with sublimate water twice daily during the first three or four 
days, while after that, up to the 12th day after the operation, 
the saturation is made but once a day. After that time the 
patient can be put to work with the bandage still on, healing 
takes place as a rule prima intentione and only, if the patient 
is worked before the twelfth day, the scab is apt to burst open 
again, which, however, has no other effect than to prolong 
the healing. 
NEURECTOMY OF THE TIBIAL NERVE. 
The same indications which justify neurectomy on the front 
leg are often present on the hind one. Here, however, the 
trunk of the nerve to be looked for can be easily detected 
(tibial nerve), so that it is unnecessary to cut through its in- 
ner and outer branch separately. The anatomical conditions 
also do not contra-indicate the operation on the nerve trunk. 
As accurate information in literature as far as the anatomical 
conditions, which are of importance in this operation, are con- 
cerned are thus far only given by EICHBAUM. (Fasciae of 
the horse. Betlin Arch. Vol. 15.) I will briefly describe them 
here. The tibial nerve, as a branch of the sciatic nerve, ap- 
pears on the miedial side of the leg under the gastrocnemii 
