2g0 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
come the seat of a hypertrophic chronic inflammation, which results in 
the formation of a fibrous tumor that may acquire large dimensions. 
We have operated upona horse affected in the left hind leg with a similar 
lesion of one year’s standing (Fig. 68). The growth was removed with the 
bistoury and the wound covered with 
aniodoform dressing. The cicatriza- 
tion was completed in two months.’ 
The section may involve either of the 
tendons or both at the same time, and 
occupy the coronet or the metacarpo- 
phalangeal region. Less serious when 
in the middle of the metacarpus than 
when on a level with the tendinous 
sheath, it is manifested by a dropping 
of the fetlock, more or less marked 
according to the lesion. If, as in the 
case of Lapdtre, the perforatus alone 
is cut, the fetlock drops backward but 
little, but if both tendons are involved 
and, @ fortiort, if the suspensory liga- 
ment itself is injured, the deviation of 
the fetlock is well marked, and at 
times the ergot comes in contact with 
the ground (Clichy, Bouley, Degive, 
Brandis). In a number of cases, 
those of Bouley and Louis among 
them, recovery has been obtained by 
chee & Cowluced: Wound ef the irrigation or simple dressings without 
Flexor Tendons of the Phalanges. the use of any special apparatus. In 
(Photograph. ) Louis’s observations the horse had 
both tendons cut, the sesamoid sheath 
was widely open and the bone involved. The horse, being very nerv- 
ous, was put in slings. Treated with continued irrigations and dressings 
with chloride of lime, he recovered in two months. Lapétre applied a shoe 
with heels four centimeters high to prevent the dropping backward of 
the fetlock; the wound having been well washed was covered with a 
dressing and filled in thirty-five days. Thick heels and elongated toe- 
Fig. 68.—Fibrosu Tumor Developed 
* We had a case similar to the one represented in Fig. 68 of several months’ 
standing, in which amputation, dissection and cauterization failed to control the 
constantly rapid increase of the growth. We at last resorted to the use of 
compressed sponges, and after six weeks of careful dressing succeeded. The 
case was recorded by Dr. Walrath,—American Vet. Review, vol. x., p. 267. 
