Ay4 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
in V shape. A curved bistouri then introduced into these tracts divi¢ 
the tissues covering the exostosis and encroaches upon this; passed 
the front tract first, with its sharp edge turned backward to avoid injt 
to the vein, then brought over the surface of the bone, with press 
on the back of the instrument, the fibro-tendinous tissues are divid 
and the superficial layer of the exostosis incised. Withdrawn, it is th 
passed in the posterior tract, where the same manipulations are execute 
Treated antiseptically, the wound heals in a few days ; no cicat 
remaining. When, by exception, suppuration occurs, there is no serio 
sequelz following. Several times Moller has carried the instrument in 
the bones without the slightest complication. A rest of four or six wee 
is necessary. It has been advised to place the animal in slings to preve 
his lying down. This therapeutic method does not claim to alwa 
cure spavin, but it does not seem to deserve the reproaches cast on 
by Schutt. Moller has obtained by it many successes. When the result 
incomplete, firing can then be used. 
Neurotomies tried by many have generally failed. The same has ber 
the case with the section of the flexor metatarsi when made a hand’s wid 
above the hock (Klemm). 
Although shoeing occupies but a secondary place in the treatmen 
Klemm, Moller, Kosters, recommend to apply a shoe with long and thic 
heels. 
For cases where the tarsal lesion is complicated with knucklin 
after proper shoeing, treatment will be applied at once on the spavin ar 
the phalangeal deviation—this last by tenotomy. (See Anuckling.) 
LTl.— Jarde—Jardon.* 
These two expressions are not synonymous. The latter is situated c 
the external face and back of the hock in the hollow existing in thi 
region. The former is applied when the exostosis, more developed, pr 
trudes beyond the posterior line of the hock, which, instead of beir 
straight, describes a curve more or less marked, on a level with the hea 
of the external metatarsal. It is proved to-day that this deformation ca 
be due to several causes: sometimes to the head of the bone which 
more developed and more angular than usual, as seen in the progenitu 
of some stallions. That which is commonly taken for a jarde is but 
fibrous tumor, true tendinitis of the pérforans (Barrier); but here e: 
ploration does not give the feeling of a bony tumor. As remarked t 
Jacoulet, growths situated on the posterior face of the principal metata 
sal, at the origin of the suspensory ligament, or the dropsy of the tars: 
1 This is the “curb” of English authors. 
