66 CANADIAlf HOESE AND HIS DISEASES. 



step, are totally incurable, although even in some of these 

 frog-setons have done wonders. 



In these aggravated cases, a palliative treatment must be 

 adopted. The shoes inust be regularly removed once a 

 month, the toe well shortened, and the sole thinned. The 

 shoe should be light, turned up at the toe, and " kept easy 

 at the heels ; " the heel caulkins should be long, and the shoe 

 must not be driven very tightly on. The feet must be well 

 stuffed, and kept cool. In aggravated cases of long stand- 

 ing, which defy all treatment, the operation of neurotomy 

 should be performed. For the sake of humanity, we recom- 

 mend it to be performed, to relieve the poor sufferer from 

 pain, which is constant and intense, and at the same time 

 restore the animal to his former usefulness.* Did our limits 

 permit, we might cite numerous cases which have been for 

 years pitiable cripples, which, since we operated on them, 

 are free from pain, and step as free and safe as ever they 



did. 



* See Neurotomy, page 200. 



