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A CASE OF NEUROTOMY. 
By Mr. R. Davie, F.*Y., Elgin. 
[We do not insert this case as containing any peculiar novelty, 
but as an interesting account of the good fortune of an old 
servant whose period of suffering is now, we hope, passed.] 
The following operation, although a very simple one, is con- 
sidered a dangerous affair in this part of the country. If you 
think this notice of it worthy of insertion in yohr excellent peri- 
odical, it is at your service. 
The subject of the present case is a grey Irish horse, which 
has been in my possession for upwards of four years. I pur- 
chased him as an unsound animal, labouring under navicular 
joint disease and contraction of the off fore foot. I had often 
relieved him from pain, and had rendered him useful as a hack 
for saddle and harness, and a good hunter; but at last he defied 
all external treatment, such as cold and hot fomentations, poul- 
tices, standing in clay baths, rasping the hoof, firing, blistering, 
the expanding shoe, a run at grass, &c., and became useless. 
I then determined on trying the operation of neurotomy, which 
had the desired effect. 
On the 27th of May last the horse was led from the stable to 
the riding-school, almost on three legs. I then had him cast, 
and properly secured, when I excised about an inch of both meta- 
carpal nerves above the fetlock. After the incisions had been 
properly secured by sutures, and bandaged, I released him from 
the hobbles, and the patient walked away to the stable, free from 
all appearance of lameness. His recovery was as speedy as I 
could have desired. On the 7th of June he was put to regular 
work, both in single and double harness, only ten days after the 
operation, and the wounds not quite healed ; and he has never 
since shewn any symptom of lameness. 
THE CURE OF A COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE 
LOWER JAW OF A PUPPY. 
By Mr. H. G. Taylor, Veterinary Student , Nottingham. 
On the 18th of August last, a retriever puppy, about six 
months old, received, while playing with a large mastiff dog, so 
severe a bite across the lower jaw as to completely fracture both 
sides of that bone. He was immediately sent to my father. 
