68 DIVISION OF BOTH FLEXOR TENDONS IN A HORSE. 
parts. The skin was brought together by three sutures. The 
operation was completed with the loss of comparatively little 
blood, and, apparently, with very little pain. 
The horse was next placed in the slings, and bandages firmly 
applied from the knee to the foot, having been previously shod 
with shoes of the following description : — I had the shoes made 
to project about three inches posterior to the foot, and a cross-bar 
was welded from heel to heel, which I found a great support to 
the legs, and prevented the oblique position of them. The band- 
ages were removed in about eight days after the operation, and 
the wounds properly dressed with mild detergents and digestives. 
The healing process went on without a single untoward symptom, 
and, in about five weeks from the time of the operation, the 
wounds were completely healed. The horse had walking exer- 
cise daily, a blister was applied to both legs, and he was sent 
home. This was in October last. I examined the horse yester- 
day. He is completely free from lameness, and stands well on 
his legs. He walks and trots as well as any horse. 
It is not the rare occurrence of this operation which induces 
me to send this account of it for insertion in an early number of 
the new series of your valuable Journal. It has been practised 
again and again, but seldom with the same success, which I 
attribute solely to the system of operating, and which I consider 
to be a valuable discovery in veterinary surgery, — the skin being 
left entire, with the exception of a longitudinal incision united with 
the oblique method of dividing the tendons, the healing process 
was favoured, and the parts properly supported. 
Forgive any imperfection in my account of this operation, for 
an accumulation of work prevents me doing duty to the subject ; 
but I was determined to appear, if possible, in some of the pages 
of the new edition of your valuable Journal. The recent dissolu- 
tion of the kind of partnership which had taken place will cause 
every tub to stand on its own bottom. I wish well to both 
parties ; but, depend upon it, that our old periodical — the pro- 
fession’s pride — ’and its venerable Editor, shall have my feeble 
support. 
REMARKS ON A DISEASE AMONG FOWLS. 
By Mr. Thomas Clapp, Borough. 
Well knowing that you do not confine your observations to 
the nobler animals of the creation, I beg to call your attention 
to the following fact connected with the feathered tribe. 
