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there is a common notion among some men, that the cutting 
of a tendon is highly dangerous, and that if such occurs by 
accident the horse is ever afterwards useless : such notions were 
also entertained by the surgeons of old ; and who also deprecated 
tenotomy, fearing the recurrence of tetanus. These notions are 
now proved to be groundless. The operation should be resorted to 
for the relief of the animal and for the benefit of mankind. 
In a case of the kind occurring again, I shall endeavour to perform 
the operation subcutaneously, similar to the plan of Mr. Liston on 
the human subject, and after the manner in which Professor Sewell 
performs subcutaneous periosteotomy for the relief of the splent. In 
this operation it was the flexor perforans only that was divided in 
each leg. 
ON “ QUIDDING” AND PALSY OF THE UPPER LIP, 
&c., IN A CART MARE. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C. V.S., Whitchurch , Salop. 
On the 31st May, 1844, John Vernon, Esq., of Tushingham, 
sent a large cart mare, seven years old, that “ quidded” her meat, 
for me to examine. She had been in this state two or three 
months, and was gradually losing flesh and getting worse. “ Tom 
the blacksmith,” of this town, had seen her, and had cut the “ flaps” 
out of her mouth, which was to be a certain cure. “ Old Seaman, 
of Farndon,” another knowing one, said there was nothing 
the matter with her. I examined her mouth, and found that the 
off side upper molar teeth, on their outer sides, were uncom- 
monly sharp — indeed, I never met with any so sharp. The buccal 
membrane, opposite to them, was very much indented, and in 
some places abraded, no doubt by the teeth. On the other side 
of the jaw the teeth were not so sharp, except in two or three 
places; but on this side there was a large abrasion opposite a 
very sharp tooth. She could eat tolerably well if she took into her 
mouth a small quantity of food at a time, but it would seem 
that, if the food at all accumulated within the off side cheek, she 
had not the power of removing or getting it between the teeth to 
masticate or swallow it : the consequence was, that she dropped it 
out of her mouth, and even, in doing this, she had some difficulty 
in getting rid of it, as she would writhe her mouth about as if she 
could not get it away or force it down with her tongue. I rasped 
her teeth, and immediately afterwards she ate a quantity of hay 
very well without quidding the least, and the servant-man who 
brought her concluded that she was cured . 
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