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A NEW METHOD OF TREATING OLD SPRAINS OF 
THE CAPSULAR LIGAMENTS OF THE SHOULDER 
AND HIP-JOINTS. 
By M. U. Leblanc, M.V, Paris. 
[It will be recollected that Professor Nanzio, of Naples, pre- 
sented an Essay on this subject to the Veterinary Medical Asso- 
ciation in the beginning of January last. It is recorded at 
page 64, in the Abstract of the Proceedings of that Association. 
The Professor had previously spent some weeks in Paris, and had 
associated much with that hospitable, and talented, and zealous 
veterinarian M. Leblanc. At the solicitation of M. Leblanc he 
operated, and successfully, on a horse with hip-lameness. He 
repeated the operation in the presence of several of the Parisian 
veterinarians, and it has been adopted by some of them, and 
with the most favourable results. We are sure that our readers 
will deriye great pleasure from the perusal of this article. It 
contains a valuable addition to our surgical knowledge ; and it 
presents an interesting picture of the intercourse between these 
veterinarians of distant countries, and the friendship that grew 
up between them. So should it be every where. — Y.] 
Who does not know that of all the lamenesses which we attri- 
bute generally to distentions of the capsular ligaments, those of 
the scapulo-humeral and the coxo-femoral joints are the most 
serious — difficult to be treated, and often incurable? Well-in- 
structed practitioners, as well as ignorant empirics, have adopted 
very different measures, and mostly without success. Local ex- 
citants, as spirituous frictions, stimulating ointments, vesicato- 
ries, charges, and the transcurrent cautery, have been the means 
usually resorted to. Setons in various places, and deeper caute- 
ries, have been employed by others. The setons have been 
warmly recommended by some veterinarians, and they have 
been applied of most unusual size, especially for lameness of 
the shoulder-joint. 
The new treatment which will be the principal subject of this 
Essay, and which has been introduced among us by M. Fer- 
dinando de Nanzio, Director of the Veterinary School at Naples, 
has some analogy to those already in use ; but it differs from 
