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so great as to require a shoe more than an inch and a half 
deep. The sole will thus evidently be sufficiently protected. 
The value of the shoe is again obvious in cases of flat feet, 
or of those which are continually in a congested state. 
We do intend to describe the modus operandi of the 
system, for no fixed principles can be laid down. The groove 
must be more or less deep according to the state of the foot, 
especially the degree of convexity of the sole. 
Our only wish, as we have already stated, is to draw the 
attention of the English members of the profession to the 
value of the periplantar shoe as a mode of treatment in chronic 
laminitis. 
CONGENITAL DISTORTION OF THE FORE LIMBS 
OF A FOAL; OPERATION; RECOVERY. 
By Charles C. Grice, M.R.C.V.S., New York, U.S. 
Thinking that a short description of a case of malforma- 
tion of limbs at birth would be interesting to some of the 
readers of your much respected and faithful record of the state 
and standing of the veterinary profession, I have forwarded the 
following particulars for publication, as I consider it not only 
my duty, but the duty of every member of the profession, to do 
something for the support of the Veterinarian when he has 
the opportunity, and to report any singular case that is likely 
to be interesting to the members of the profession. 
The foal to which I am about to refer was a choice bred 
one, the property of the well-known printing-press manufac- 
turers of this city — Messrs. R. Hoe and Co. On July 14, 
1869, I was requested by Mr. Hoe to see the animal, then 
ten days old, at a breeding farm sixty miles from this city. 
I found that the foal was not able to stand long enough to 
get sufficient nourishment from the mare without being 
supported by the groom, as its two fore feet were turned 
backwards and upwards so as to bring the front part of both 
fetlock joints in contact with the ground. On reporting the 
condition of the animal to my employer, he was much dis- 
couraged, but sent it down to my place with its dam, that 
trial might be given to the operation of tenotomy. 
The operation was performed on July 26, the patient 
being first brought under the influence of chloroform, admi- 
nistered by my esteemed friend Professor Liantard, of the 
New York College of Veterinary Surgeons. The tendons 
