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VETERINARY SURGICAL OPERATIONS 



to drive the nails until the new wall from the coronet 

 descends far enough to receive them. The hoofs regener- 

 ated from the laminee of the flap are seldom thick enough 

 nor sufficiently tough to adequately support the shoe. 



The entire disappearance of all of the hyperesthesia that 

 follows this transgression upon so sensitive a region requires 

 considerable time, even after the breach has been reclothed 

 with horn. 



SEQUELiE AND ACCIDENTS.— (i) Sepsis is the 

 chief enemy of the wound of this operation. Performed for 

 a disease. of a septic nature, upon a part that is difficult to 



Fig. 160 — Method of Exposing Lateral Cartilage without Invading the 



Coronary Cushion (Frick). A, Coronary Cushion. 2?, Lateral 



Cartilage Uncovered. C, Laminae. 



cleanse, often under conditions unfavorable to the mainte- 

 nance of operative cleanliness, and very frequently upon a 

 patient whose vitality offers little resistance to microbian 

 invasion, it is no wonder that the wound sometimes reacts 

 badly. This sequel ends variably. Sometimes it is trivial 

 and yields promptly to antiseptic treatment, while at other 

 times the inflammation invades the articulation and ends 

 fatally. Between these two extreme results of infection are 

 such sequelae as loosening of the flap with subsequent tardy 

 healing of the wound, deformity of the hoof, infection of the 

 tendon sheath, and obstinate lameness. 



(2) Accidental incision of the capsular ligament of the 



