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various parties were not much more fortunate. Before antisepsis was 
known they could not succeed. In 1889, W. Hunting and Duguid * 
made new trials. Like Cherry, they removed, with the cicatrix, a long 
elliptical cutaneous band, the long axis of which was parallel to the ex- 
tremity ; a pin twisted suture brought the edges of the wound together. 
They did not obtain a complete adhesive union ; still, on one subject, there 
remained only a very slight cicatrix. Hunting advises operating only 
upon old cicatrices, and insists upon the necessity of immobilizing the leg 
if one would have complete success. 
Fig. 47.—Autoplasty of the Broken Knee. (From Cherry, reproduced by W. 
Hunting.) 
Delcambre and Vinsot? have reached this result by maintaining the 
most careful asepsis, and by immobilizing the leg in a plaster dressing. 
This is their method : 
The animal is thrown on the side opposite the leg to be operated upon ; 
this is carried in extension and strongly fixed. The anterior face of the 
knee is shaved, and this region and its surroundings, having been thoroughly 
disinfected, are wrapped in a cloth made aseptic by immersion in boiling 
water. 
With scissors, an opening (fenestra), elongated in the direction of the 
leg, is made through this wrapper, on a level with the cicatrix. Two slightly 
curved incisions, meeting at a very acute angle at their extremities, define 
* W. Hunting, the Veterinary Journal, 1889, p. 474. 
2 Delcambre and Vinsot, Bullet. de la Soc, Cent. de Med, Vet, 1894, p. 515. 
