PARASITES—TU MORS. 283 
hoof sloughed off, and the patient was destroyed. The irregularity of 
the function had not returned. 
It is seen that the therapeutics of springhalt is no less complicated than 
the etiology. To treat it properly, the cause must first be known. 
Correct the standing of the foot if it is defective, treat the painful lesions 
which may exist, perform the operation of Boccar, patellar desmotomy 
or sciatic neurotomy, according to the case; such are the most frequent 
directions. We are at present without means of treatment for the spring- 
halt due to medullary lesions and muscular or nervous affections of the 
superior regions of the leg. 
For the springhalt of the fore legs, if proper shoeing does not relieve 
it, plantar or median neurotomy might be tried. 
