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ot manipulate, or attempt to force it out, but enlarge the opening, 
and the substance will come through when that is long enough; 
but no fingering could compel its exit while the opening i3 too 
small, The end gained for which the incision was made in the 
cesophagus, the wound may be then closed by the interrupted su- 
tures, each holding a small piece of tow above the orifice, and 
having their ends hanging out of the external opening, which 
should also be brought together by sutures. The after-treatment 
should be to interdict all dry food; the animal ought to subsist 
on very thick gruel for three, four, or five days, If the condition 
appears to suffer much, allow malt mashes, and when so doing 
watch the wound ; and if the matters taken in are seen to ooze out, 
wash them away frequently with warm water, to prevent lodg- 
ment, which might encourage sinuses to form; and after each 
washing, syringe with some very mild stimulant, as a very weak 
solution of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol), etc. 
Nevrotomy (DIvIsioN OF THE SENTIENT NERVES OF 
THE Foot). 
Neurotomy has now stood the test of very extensive application. 
Our writers offer innumerable proofs of its restoring almost uselesa 
animals to a state of much utility; and if there are chances that 
it may occasion such injury as to hasten the end of some horses, 
it is usually in such as the disease would have done the same for 
at no distant period. Having stated thus much in its favor, it 
must not be supposed that we recommend it as an unqualified 
benefit, even where it succeeds best. No neurotomized horse ever 
after goes with the same freedom, nor with equal safety, as he did 
before the operation was performed. Indifference to the nature 
of the ground gone over is said to have fractured legs; it is quite 
common tu batter the feet to pieces; and, although horses have 
hunted afterward, and hackneys have carried their riders long 
distances, yet it is more calculated to prove beneficial to carriage 
than to saddle-horses. This we believe to be a just statement of 
its merits; but there are benefits which it offers to the animal of 
a more extensive ana constitutional kind. Those gained by the 
bodily system generally have been, in some cases, very marked. 
Thus, an aged and crippled stallion, from the irritation constantly 
kept up, became so emaciated as to be unable te fecundate; but. 
