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treatment. I wished to resort to the actual cautery : to this the 
owner would not consent, though strongly urged to do so. Both 
knees were strongly blistered, after blood had been freely abstracted 
from the toe of the lame limb : rest, of course, followed, and sound- 
ness was the result. 
The period was but short ere he again became lame of the same 
limb. From its frequent repetition, I could not help thinking that, 
during the periods of apparent soundness, disease must have been 
insidiously going on, and that now it must be looked at as a hope- 
less case. Being a favourite horse, every means likely to benefit 
were to be adopted, and I was now allowed to fire, which I did 
with severity, blistering afterwards : as soon as fit, a second 
blister was applied : rest followed, as a matter of course. 
This severe treatment again produced apparent soundness; but it 
was only transitory. 
The owner wished to have neurotomy performed. To this I ob- 
jected, remarking that I could not conceive benefit would result 
from depriving the foot of sensation, while the part affected was 
freely supplied with nerves. After my reluctance to operate, 
except as an experiment, the horse was sent to a practitioner of 
eminence at the west-end, who pronounced him lame from navicular 
disease, and recommended neurotomy , which he was allowed to 
perform. 
After the horse was sent home, I by accident saw him. He was 
certainly not benefitted by the neurotomy : in addition to the 
original lameness he was now very fumbly. 
Three months after, the owner informed me of the result. He 
took the horse into the country, where, after every means he could 
suggest to make the horse in some degree useful, he found him so 
very unsafe from the numbness of his feet added to the lameness, 
that he gave him to a neighbouring farmer, to work on the land if 
he could, which latter he much doubted would be accomplished. 
T have always regretted my not being able to keep this horse in 
view until his death ; but, from circumstances, this was out of my 
power. 
[To be continued.] 
ON VETERINARY OBSTETRICY— EXTRACTION OF 
THE FCETUS. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.V.S. Whitchurch, Salop. 
I HAVE often thought how highly necessary it is for every per- 
son following the veterinary profession, especially in the country, 
to be fully acquainted with the method of extracting the foetus in 
