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HEALING OF A WOUND IN A QUEY. 
Both the cow and calf went on exceedingly well without the least 
untoward circumstance after little more of my attention. 
The instrument is in the form of nutcrackers, about twelve 
inches long in the closing part, and hollowed out in the inside, with 
a screw at the handle-end to close or to extend the two sides of the 
opening tube to any distance, to allow the free use of the spear-like 
sharp-cutting instrument inside. The end of the opening tube or 
guard is a rounded and smooth joint one inch in diameter, which is 
the end to be introduced through the os uteri. The sharp-cutting 
instrument is to be used inside this, so that its two cutting edges or 
blades, with a long handle, can operate with certainty on the carti- 
lage only, and with the greatest ease. But more of this some other 
time. 
THE HEALING OF A WOUND IN A QUEY* 
By Mr. James Barclay, V.S., Innerpaffray , Perthshire. 
About the 15th of July 1844, I was called on to see a quey, the 
property of a neighbouring farmer, which had got its hind leg cut 
by one of the servants, who threw his sickle at it. I found that 
the animal had had the tendons of the gastrocnemii muscles com- 
pletely divided about two and a-half inches above the point of the 
os calcis. By this the animal was deprived of the use of the limb, 
which was bent forward under the belly ; the tarsus approaching 
the ground from want of action of the gastrocnemii muscles, and the 
recession of the divided tendons shewed a deep and unsightly wound. 
The animal was taken home in a cart. 
I then cast the animal, had it properly secured, and, having 
brought the integuments together by sutures, I applied a linen roller 
round the wound, and four wooden splints reaching from the stifle 
joint to the ground, one before, another behind, and two laterally; 
placing tow between them and the leg of the animal, in order to 
prevent undue pressure on any part. I then bound the whole firmly 
round with cords, to prevent the motion of the hock joint, thus re- 
taining the tendons in contact. 
The animal was confined, put upon spare diet, and allowed to 
remain in this situation for a week ; when, having had it secured as 
formerly, I loosened the bandages and cleansed the wound. I then 
found that the wounds were partially united, with a thin purulent 
* For the information of such of our readers as are not acquainted with the 
Scotch provincial dialects, we may remark that a “ quey” means a two-year- 
old heifer. — Ed. 
