DIVISION OF THE FLEXOR TENDONS. 137 
cuius about the size of a bean presented itself, which was easily 
extracted. I secured the incision with a stitch, and allowed the 
animal to get up, when he appeared to be completely relieved, 
and in the course of ten minutes he voided his urine as if nothing 
had taken place. Three days afterwards I called to see him^ 
when he appeared to be perfectly well, the wound having ad¬ 
hered by the first intention; and in fourteen days the owner sold 
him. 
AN UNSUCCESSFUL CASE OF DIVISION OF THE 
FLEXOR TENDONS. 
By Mr. J. Holford, V.S., Middlewich. 
There being many cases related in your Journal of a division 
of the flexor tendons, and some of them inserted before time 
could shew whether the result was a perfect cure, or at least 
the bringing of the animal to a state of permanent usefulness, 
I beg leave to transmit to you the following account:—The 
subject is a fine valuable horse, aged 9 years, which, until his 
seventh year, had travelled as a stallion in Staffordshire. At 
this period he received a kick in the off-hind leg, and for which 
he had been attended by a respectable practitioner. He had 
been blistered repeatedly,and once fired, but with no good effect. 
The owner then sold him to a Mr. G. Moore, captain of a fly 
boat on the line of canal between Birmingham and Liverpool. 
His weekly work was to go from this place to Manchester and 
back, a distance of 44 miles each way, having three days only in 
which to perform this labour—the remainder of the week he 
rested, as is usual with these horses. 
For seven or eight months the owner worked him, but per¬ 
ceived him gradually to go worse and worse, so that at last he 
walked upon the point of his toe. 
Mr. Moore had been told by a Mr. G., in Manchester, that 
the heel might be brought down to the ground, and his horse 
cured. It was for this I was consulted; and, by his desire, I 
operated on the 8th of last May, midway between the hock and 
fetlock joint, and treated the wound as described by your con¬ 
tributors. 
In six weeks the patient was able to be turned out to grass, 
without much perceptible lameness. In three months his pas¬ 
ture was changed, and he went with two other horses. He at this 
period shewed no lameness, and placed his heel down apparently 
with as much facility as the other, and the leg appeared as 
strong as the near one. 
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