A CASE OF LAMENESS. 
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•ease and alteration of structure. In point of fact, the mechanical 
mischief increases instead of diminishes, the disease spreads, and 
all hopes of effecting a radical cure become extinguished. 
Such are the consequences of neurotomy. The diminution, or 
total cessation, however, of nervous sensibility too frequently oc- 
casions very serious accidents. The fracture of the navicular and 
coffin-bones, of which I have myself seen one case; rupture of the 
perforans, seen by both Dick and Turner *, and that too immedi- 
ately after the operation ; extension of this tendon, witnessed by 
Castley f several months after the operation ; all these belong to 
the serious consequences of neurotomy. The most frequent Acci- 
dent resulting from the operation of neurotomy, and one which I 
have often had the opportunity of observing, is shedding of the 
hoof. I read in Yillate’s work %, that Sewell himself admits that 
he has seen this occur in as many as six or seven cases out of 
ten. 
[To be continued.] 
A CASE OF LAMENESS. 
By E. N. Gabriel, M.R.C.S . and R.C.V.S 1 
Hippophilus . — “ You have delivered yourself very well ; but yet, Hipposerus 
(but yet) I am to seek to know and understand when I see a horse doth 
halt or complain, where the grief lieth, being a thing most needful for a 
gentleman to be very perfect in, but more especially for him that is a far- 
rier, who is to cure and set upright the horse that is lame.” 
Hipposerus . — “ You speak pure truth, sir, and therefore I will give you such 
assured rudiments whereby you shall not at any time fail in the discovery 
of the least lameness that shall proffer itself to your eye, if you will be 
pleased diligently to observe my documents. You must, therefore, first 
understand, that if he do halt before, his grief must of necessity be either 
in the shpulder or knee, or in the shank, or in the pastern, or in the foot 
and thus much for lameness and halting before Now, you per- 
ceiving your horse to halt, and that you be assured that his lameness is 
not before, then may you be confident it must be behind.” 
He Grey , 1684. 
Would that it had been my good fortune, during the days of 
my noviciate, to have met with such a mentor as Hipposerus, to 
have afforded me information so invaluable as that which would 
* The Veterinarian for 1830. 
f The Veterinarian, vol. ii, p. 88. 
I Recueil de M6ddcine V6t6rinaire, 1828, p. 40L 
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