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CASE OF SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF DIVISION 
OF THE PERFORANS TENDON. 
Py Mr. F.- Fu ller, V.S., Match, Cambridgeshire . 
On the 3d of March, 1831, I was sent for to attend upon a 
mare, the property of Mr. Tombling, of Maney, that was sup¬ 
posed to have dislocated her near shoulder. On my arrival I 
found the patient lying on her off-side ; the village cowleech, with 
two knights of the anvil, assisted by half a dozen muscular 
fellows, using all their professional still and power to reduce 
the supposed dislocated limb. I inquired of the proprietor into 
the history of the accident, who informed me that he was taking 
her to Downham-fair with the intention of selling her. When 
he had got about four miles on the road, some persons passing 
by frightened her, and, she, being blind of the off eye, blundered 
into a drain by the road side; and it was with great difficulty 
that she was got out: when got out she was so lame that she 
could scarcely put her foot to the ground. Upon my examining 
the lame leg, I discovered a transverse wound in the felock, about 
an inch in length, and midway between the two pastern joints, 
at which place the tendon of the flexor perforans was completely 
divided, as if done by some sharp instrument: but it was with 
some little difficulty that I could persuade these powerful wise¬ 
acres that so trifling a scratch , as they termed it, could produce 
so much lameness. Some fluid of a synovial character escaped 
from the wound, apparently from the sheath of the perforated 
tendon.. There was not the slightest heemorrhage from the 
wound. 
I immediately placed her in slings between waggon shafts, 
and applied a piece of adhesive plaister to the wound when the 
leg was in a flexed position, and in which position it was kept 
by means of bandages. As she appeared to be labouring under 
great excitement, I abstracted eight pounds of blood, and gave 
her some anodyne and fever medicine; and I ordered bran 
mashes and a little hay. On the following day I found her 
precisely int he same position as I left her : there was no swell¬ 
ing about the leg ; the bowels w^ere :rather confined ; she had a 
little fever, but did not appear in so much pain as yesterday. 
I ordered her Jiii of aloes in a ball, and a little fever medicine in 
mashes twice a-day. 
I saw her again on the fourth day/ when she appeared to be 
going on well: from this time I visited her two or three times a 
week. ; 
