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THE NEW OPERATION OF TENOTOMY. 
They could be traced out through their convolutions of the most 
beautiful bright amber colour, and, pursuing their course, discharg- 
ing themselves into the vena porta, which, on being cut through to 
disengage the stomach and spleen from the liver, exhibited the 
same peculiar semi-fluid issuing from its divided end. 
The liver, which was in my opinion secondarily affected, was 
enormously large, weighing thirty-four pounds, and seemed to be 
so entirely changed as not to possess one original quality either in 
aspect or function. It was much indurated, and firmer in texture. 
The parenchyma of a deep olive colour, variegated by small irre- 
gularly-shaped black spots throughout the whole substance, and 
reminding me much of the marks and colour of a toad’s back. It 
resisted the knife considerably, but, when divided, the marble-like 
structure, glistening with this crystalline serum issuing from each 
vessel, produced a most beautiful effect. 
The other abdominal viscera were healthy, and the heart was 
slightly pale. 
I had the satisfaction of proving the truth of my prognosis by 
this examination; but, alas! after all, I fear that we are as much 
at a loss for a remedy for this insidious disease as ever. 
THE NEW OPERATION OF TENOTOMY. 
By W. COOPER, M.R.C. V.S., Berkhampstead. 
In the June number of this year’s VETERINARIAN, you have a 
communication from me upon the subject of tenotomy, wherein I 
respectfully reminded you that the disease of the metacarpal liga- 
ment was a frequent cause of distorted limb; at the same time I 
related a case in point, in which a division of that ligament was 
followed by the best results, and suggested that (in cases where 
this ligament was the especial seat of disease) the section may be 
confined to it alone, leaving the tendons untouched. In your 
editorial remarks you acknowledged those hints with candour, and 
in terms calculated to inspire further inquiry. Since then, I have 
forwarded you a specimen of the diseased state to which I have 
referred ; and, in the private letter you honoured me with, you 
state that the specimen “ contains most indisputable evidence of 
thickening, enlargement, and adhesion of the metacarpal ligament, 
and proves that to have been the cause of the contracted sinews.” 
I may further add, that the subject of this notice had no other ap- 
parent alteration of structure in either muscle or sinew in any part 
of the limb. 
