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FALSE PRESENTATION IN A HEIFER. 
I operated on the near fore leg above the joint. He afterwards 
went sound, but clambered in his gallop, and could not go his 
former pace. He was ultimately sold to hunt in Essex. 
Case Y. 
The Chief, a steeple-chase horse. As regards the lameness 
of this horse, there were a variety of opinions. I was consulted, 
and stated it to be navicular. He was sent to me to be operated 
on. I excised a portion of the metacarpal nerve. He afterwards 
went sound — was put into training — ran second in the first 
steeple-chase in which he was engaged ; and in the second, while 
contesting the race with another, to be first at the post, his hind 
foot unfortunately became fixed in the heel of the fore foot of the 
leg on which he had been operated, and he came down, tearing 
the flexor tendon to threads. He was in this condition destroyed. 
As my mode of operation is different from that which is generally 
adopted, and as it may not be unworthy the consideration of prac- 
titioners, permit me to state it. Instead of making the incision 
down the leg, I make it transversely. The consequence of this 
is, if well performed, that the cicatrix can scarcely be detected : 
the hair growing over it, and completely covering it from above, 
renders it altogether imperceptible to the eye. 
I am, Sir, 
Your obedient servant. 
April 15th, 1848. 
*** Will Mr. Webb kindly inform us if he practises the transverse 
operation below as well as above the fetlock ; and if he finds any 
difficulty in excising the nerve through it ; and whether it occa- 
sions, afterwards, any protraction in the healing of the external 
wound? — Ed. Vet. 
FALSE PRESENTATION IN A HEIFER, AND 
DIFFICULT PARTURITION. 
By John Younghusband, V.S. Grey stoke. 
Sir, — In looking over some loose memoranda, I found the 
following case of false presentation and difficult parturition ; and 
as the season is approaching when we may expect to meet with 
cases of the above description, I perhaps may be excused for nar- 
rating some of its particulars. 
