bilateral digital neurotomy 



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HISTORY. — Digital neurotomy, so far as we are able 

 to ascertain, was first performed in the London Veterinary 

 College by Professor Sewell about the year 1817, some years 

 after he had demonstrated the results of division of the whole 



Fig. 95. 



Fig. 95^. 

 Fig. 95 and 95^ — Wrenching of the 

 Flexors (Break-Down) Following 

 Plantar Neurotomy. 



Fig. 96 — Course of the Internal Plan- 

 tar Nerve. 



a — Seat of Section in High Plantar 

 Neurotomy, b — Seat of Section 

 in Low Plantar Neurotomy. 



plantar nerve above the fetlock joint. There is little avail- 

 able history of the procedure during the succeeding years, 

 beyond record of isolated cases here and there, performed 



