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reddish colored granulations. Should the operation be in- 

 dicated on account of a suppurative pododerniatitis the bars 

 on the affected side must be excised along with the other 

 portions. The position and extent of the navicular bone 

 can be determined by feeling through the flexor tendon. A 

 transverse incision is then made over the middle of the 

 navicular bone through the flexor pedis tendon into the 

 navicular bursa, the distal end of the tendon grasped with 



Fig. 12. 



Resection of the Flexor Pedis Tendon. 



Solar surface of the foot, c, Semihinar crest of os pedis ; 



u, OS pedis ; r, iiavicular-pedal ligament ; s, navicular bone ; 



b, flexor pedis tendon ; e, sensitive lamina of the bars ; st, 



fatty frog ;/, sensitive frog ; h, horny frog, 



the tenaculum forceps and lifted up from the navicular bone 

 with the aid of two lateral curved incisions. Between the 

 inferior border of the navicular bone and the .semi-lunar crest 

 of the OS pedis stretches the capsular ligament of the in- 

 ferior articulation between these two bones reinforced by 

 dense fibrous bands. The flexor pedi.s tendon is united to 



