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ON WOUNDED AND DIVIDED TENDONS. 
By Thos. Turner, 
President of the Royal College of V eterinary Surgeons . 
[Continued from Vol. xx, p. 191.] 
Dear Mr. Editor, — I n one of your leading articles of the last 
number of The VETERINARIAN you have done me an honour by 
urging the necessity of the attention of the junior veterinarian and 
student to my paper, published in the same number, on “ Wounded 
and divided Tendons I therefore feel it the more imperative that 
I should embrace the first leisure opportunity of adding a few brief 
remarks touching the treatment of these very formidable injuries. 
By the way of additional zest, I shall cite an instructive case of 
my brother’s, which occurred in the olden time, since its precepts 
are applicable at the present day, to the very letter. Nearly thirty 
years ago, at the height of the gallant hunting career of the late 
John Maberly, Esq., his most crack hunter was cut down under 
him with one fore leg, during a very rapid burst. He valued his 
horse at 500 guineas. Notwithstanding only a few weeks before 
the accident, my brother saw 250 guineas paid down for the said 
brown gelding to the celebrated “ Gotland Lotion Dickinson.” 
Previous to the rider dismounting, the horse’s toe was observed 
in the air. The wound was at the back of the fetlock, imme- 
diately under the tuft of hair — a puncture from a razor-like flint. 
The very minutiae of this case are worthy of record, because it 
happened that all manner of circumstances conspired towards the 
restoration of the wounded steed. 
This accident occurred in a wild country, far from shelter; and 
the squire, perceiving that the patient, in his way home, would 
have to ascend and descend some terrific hills, exercised his usual 
acumen by giving a peremptory order to his groom that the horse 
should not be moved one yard from the field he was then in until 
Mr. Turner arrived, although it might be all the night through. 
My brother reached the spot within three hours of the receipt of 
the injury, having carried in his pocket a small mechanical support , 
which led to the perfect restoration of this valuable animal. There 
is no occasion for a sketch of the crooked piece of iron, since he 
merely directed his farrier to forge the ordinary high supporting 
patten, provided with two side wings or branches, as if he were 
about to weld these wings upon the ground surface of a common 
shoe. This instrument, without a shoe, he took with him. His 
design was as follows : first, partially to flex the injured leg, before 
an ounce of weight was borne upon the sinew ; secondly, that he 
