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ON WOUNDED AND DIVIDED TENDONS. 
would avoid the torture of wrenching the injured surfaces of the 
tendon necessarily attendant upon taking off the shoe (an evil too 
often before deplored), being provided with two or three small 
files and drawing knives, he first excavated the horn between the 
two last nails of the outside quarter, making an aperture between 
the shoe and the foot corresponding in size with the extremity or 
side branch of the patten ; then, having made a similar breach in 
the hoof of the inside quarter, between the two case nails, the 
wings of the supporter slipped into each excavation most happily 
and firmly, while the shoe remained equally secure upon the foot. 
Compresses of pasteboard and rollers were immediately applied to 
the leg and arm, and the horse ordered, by short and measured 
steps, to make the best of his way to his own stable, a distance of 
several miles. 
The case demanded and received long continued soothing treat- 
ment, absolute quietude, with the strictest antiphlogistic discipline, 
which was followed up by blistering. Notwithstanding our ex- 
treme efforts he remained lame for several months, with considerable 
tumefaction of the flexor tendon. In due time the leg received the 
deep cautery lesions, and about that day twelvemonths, from the 
receipt of the injury, the horse made his re-appearance in the 
hunting field, carrying with spirit his master one of the most ex- 
traordinary days in the annals of Surrey hunting. 
Mr. Maberly’s faith in veterinary surgery, even in those embryo 
days of our veterinary existence as a body, was unbounded : he 
was the very model of a patron to a really practical man. Had 
two years been required for this case, there would have been no 
hesitation, no flinching, no evasion of the struggle ; and in the 
event proving a dead failure, not the semblance of a murmur would 
be either uttered or implied. 
This animal remained absolutely sound for several successive 
seasons, known all through the county as the cut tendon horse. 
As an auxiliary in the treatment of such formidable cases, there 
can be no doubt of the importance of slinging when the chief 
appliances are at hand ; but it having happened to me on so many 
trying occasions that I have been driven to tax my wits to the 
utmost to find substitutes for such accommodation, at the pressure 
of the moment, the cause may be further served by a short outline 
of other expedients. In the worst of these cases, the practitioner 
is anxious to get his patient into the nearest farm house stable 
within reach, or even hovel if provided with rack and manger. 
If turned loose in the box he would be continually getting up and 
down from pain and irritation : this I oppose ; by applying a 
stout leather head collar provided with two strong reins, and 
securely tying his head to the rack. I should have commenced by 
