312 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
terization may be used. Firing in transverse lines, penetrating points or 
in needles is preferred. Seldom is the superficial points cauterization, of 
old technic, now used. : 
Some practitioners begin the treatment of light lesions by moist and 
hot compresses. In serious cases, others use astringents first, and cold 
for a week; or, again, unmindful of the pain, make a vesicating friction 
(spirit of turpentine 100, cantharidis powder roo, euphorbium powder 
100, vaseline 400), and if necessary repeat it: when the scabs are off, 
they cover the region with a coat of ointment of iodide of potassium and 
immobilize it with a plastered bandage, which is changed after ten or 
twelve days. If some induration of the tendon remains, they complete the 
resolution with hot compresses and massage. 
Hunting, in the Veterinary Record, has on several occasions recom. 
mended the following treatment, which has given him good results: In 
day time, application of a pad of cotton-laine kept in place with a linen 
bandage ; during the night, pressure with a flannel roller ; besides massage 
and walking exercise. When the disease is chronic, a plastered 
bandage. 
For old tendinous sprains, or those formed slowly, whose lesions become 
marked gradually, as well as in all cases where the local sensibility and 
hyperthermia are limited, cauterization had better be used at once. 
When the disease is relatively recent, not subordinated to bony lesions 
and free from complications, good treatment gives a good proportion of 
successes. By his method, cold, moist heat and cauterization, Ableitner 
has obtained the following results: Out of 287 cases, 263 recoveries 
(among which a few incomplete), 24 failures. For 125 horses, recovery 
was obtained in one month; for 97, in about two; for 41 it required a 
little more than three. 
A certain number of cases of tendinitis resist the most rational treat- 
ment. Either the horse remains somewhat lame or again is entirely un- 
able to work. Then median neurotomy is indicated. Peters, Moller, 
Goldmann, Blanchard, have shown the advantages to be derived from it 
in old lesions of tendons, which have resisted local treatment. To per- 
form it, the animal is cast on the lame side, the lame leg is drawn forward 
with a rope or carried in that position with the side-bar hobbles, and the 
other upper fore leg secured above the hock of the corresponding hind 
leg, when the region to be operated is well exposed. 
Then, exploring the internal face of the elbow with the fingers, by care- 
ful motions from forward backward and vice versa, the thick cord formed 
by the median nerve is readily detected (fig. 73). Oblique downwards 
and backwards, it is a little more superficial than the radial artery, with 
