RE-UNION OF THE EXTENSOR TENDON OF THE FOOT. 556 
two quarts of pus, which flowed through the abdominal ring. 
The colt regained his appetite, and in a few days perfectly 
recovered. 
RE-UNION OF THE EXTENSOR TENDON OF THE 
HIND FOOT AFTER DIVISION. 
By the same. 
July 21s/, 1830.—A gelding, aged four years, intended for 
hunting, belonging to James Brown, Esq. of Quarrington, near 
Sleaford ; caught his near hind leg in an iron wheel belonging 
to an implement used in husbandry, and severely lacerated it, 
with several wounds about the hock. The most dangerous 
wound was situated at the anterior and inferior portion of that 
important joint: the extensor of the foot was completely severed, 
and the cavity of the joint between the cuneiform medium and the 
head of the large metatarsal laid open; the capsular ligament 
being wounded, and synovia discharging from the orifice. The 
horse being in high condition, I took tbvii of blood from the ju¬ 
gular, and gave him opening medicine composed of Cape aloes, 
&c. and applied fomentations and cataplasms to the wounded 
limb. After treating it in this manner for three days with but little 
prospect of a successful result, I opened the saphena vein, and 
took fbx of blood from it, and applied lotions of Goulard extract, 
water, and rectified spirit. Gangrene and sloughing ensued, and 
I applied frequently cataplasms of bran and linseed meal, mixed 
with yeast. The lacerated ends of the tendon sloughed, and 
separated about one inch from each other: in about eight days 
a good matter began to be formed, and the wound to assume a 
healthy appearance. I then gave, occasionally, diuretics, and ap¬ 
plied digestive ointment and comp, tincture of myrrh and aloes 
to the wound, with bandages, and saturnine lotions to the limb: 
granulations formed, and closed the orifice in the joint. The dis¬ 
charge of synovia ceased ; and in five weeks the horse was com¬ 
pletely recovered: and I infer that the extensor tendon has 
united, for the horse performs the functions of progression with 
ease, and is perfectly sound, which I think it would be impossible 
for him to do by the aid of the minor extensor alone. 
