OPERATIONS UPON FIBROUS TISSUES. 



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weeks should elapse before the ordiaary labor of the patient can 

 be resumed. The resulting wound needs no special dressing, and 

 by being thoroughly sterilized by antiseptic manipulations, the 

 parts will heal without trouble. The suggestions of poiiltices, 

 fomentations, counter irritation, blisters and firing of old-time 

 surgery must be strictly ignored. 



If, however, all the measures recommended for the straighten- 

 ing of the leg should fail, and, on the contrary, a tendency to an 



Fig. 334. ^"'- ^^■ 



Figs. 331, 335, 336.-Tarlous Apparatus Eecommended after Tenotomy. 



excessive extension of the fetlock should be manifested, the appH- 

 cation of some of the various kinds of apparatus designed for the 

 correction of these defects may be experimentally tried, with a 



