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SUBCUTANEOUS PERIOSTEOTOMY. 
dreadfully stretched there is a thick scurf, which is sloughing 
off. R Turned out to grass in the day ; setons removed ; 
aloes 3j, ginger 5ij, given every alternate day. 
2 Sth. — Perfectly well, and at plough. 
TWO SUCCESSFUL CASES OF SUBCUTANEOUS 
PERIOSTEOTOMY. 
By Mr. J. W. Mayer, Newcastle-under-Litie. 
If the retrospective view of the progress of veterinary know- 
ledge afford a pleasing satisfaction to the conductors of a journal 
devoted to its interests, what consolation must the practitioner 
experience in recalling to mind the new light flung upon the 
treatment of disease ; even if there is only one new mode of 
treatment calculated to relieve or cure any one disease? Such 
a pleasing thought does occur, to my mind at least, in consider- 
ing the new mode of treatment employed by Professor Sewell for the 
cure of splents ; and such reflections must occur to all those who 
are resolved to try every mode of treatment, from whatever quarter 
it may have been recommended. 
It is my intention, in the present paper, to prove, by a statement 
of two facts, that the operation of subcutaneous periosteotomy 
for the cure of splents is safe, calculated for the removal of lame- 
nees, and, to a certain extent, producing considerable absorption. 
CASE I. 
On July 11th, 1835, a bay horse, belonging to C H , 
Esq., of M , was brought to our establishment, lame in con- 
sequence of a very large splent. It was determined to perform 
the beforementioned operation, which was accordingly done, in 
the manner recommended by Professor Sewell (see Veterina- 
rian) ; a seton was likewise inserted, for the purpose of exciting 
a greater degree of inflammation. 
On the 16th, the seton was taken out, and cooling astringent 
lotions ordered to be applied to the splent daily. 
On the 8th of August the horse was perfectly free from lame- 
ness, and the splent diminishing daily. The horse has since been 
sold; and at the time of sale the splent was scarcely perceivable, 
nor did any blemish result from the operation. 
CASE II. 
Was a pony belonging to a member of parliament, which had 
a very large splent on the head of the internal small metacarpal 
