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thread; then the opposite border is again run through by the needle from 
backward forward, thus forming a loop on the anterior face. The same 
process takes place with the lower end, but in passing the two threads 
successively from backward forward, and then twisting or knotting them 
together.” (Fig. 64.) 
2. Mode of Wolfler : “The thread passes through the upper end twice, 
then through the lower end also, and is secured on the side.” * (Fig. 65.) 
Figs, 64, 65, 66.—Tendinous sutures. 
3. Mode of Le Dentu: “In which there are two sutures, one of juxta- 
position and one of support, which are passed through both tendinous 
ends.” (Fig. 66.) 
When it is not possible to bring the ends together, a suture apart is 
made with catgut, or the suture by anastomosis. 
Then a cutaneous suture is made with or without drainage, and a dress- 
ing put on ; the non-resorbable threads are removed after four or five weeks. 
Long rest is necessary. 
Up to this day but few operations of this kind have been performed 
on animals, and the results have not béen brilliant. Upon a steer whose 
tendo Achillis was cut, Furlanetto sutured the ends with silk, but all ant- 
iseptic precautions not having been carried out, the wound suppurated, 
the sutures became loose, and the tendinous énds necrosed. (See Wounds 
of the Cord of the Hock.) As the author says, this failure could have 
been avoided with vigorous antisepsis. . 
When suppuration is already present, or if there is partial necrosis and 
tendinous sloughs, then tendons surround themselves with a thick fibrous 
cicatricial layer which unites the tendons to the surrounding parts, and 
the movements return only very incompletely. At times the leisons are 
very extensive. Ina steer wounded on the right hind canon with the 
blade of a plow; Furlanetto found a section of the perforatus, perforans 
* Lejars ¢ Traité de Chirurgie de Duplay and Recher, t, 1, p, 815, 
