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facts can not be erected as absolute rules, the exceptions are 

 too few to ignore them as such. 



RESTRAINT.— The recommendations made for digital 

 neurotomy may be applied bodily to plantar neurotomy, with 



Fig. 84. 



the difference that the latter, being so much more easily 

 performed, is much more favorable for the standing posi- 

 tion. The plantar nerve is easily found on dissection, it is 

 superficial, it is located in an accessible place, its environs are 



Fig. 86. 



easily cocainized. The standing position suffices in most 

 cases, especially when only a single leg is to be operated 

 upon. The cocainization of four seats of operation and the 

 dissection and division of four separate nerves, required in 



