A CASE OF DIVISION OF FLEXOil TENDONS. 743 
that they can perform double the work required of them, and with 
greater ease and comfort to themselves, when the coat or hair is re¬ 
duced to about that length in which it is found upon them in the 
month of July, than they can with the lengthened coat which na¬ 
ture has given to them as a protection from the rigours of winter, 
but which protection is not required in the present domesticated 
state. The hunter Avith a short coat returns to his stable after ever 
so fatiguing a day, and is dressed and comfortable in a very short 
space of time; Avhile the long coated one, on the contrary, con¬ 
tinues in an uncomfortable state for several hours, in defiance of 
rubbing and clothing. The perspiration saturates the clothes, and 
renders the atmosphere damp and unfit for him or any horse to 
breathe. It rapidly throws him out of condition and predisposes him 
to disease. 
When clipping is resorted to, and the horse is taken as much care 
of as a hot-house plant, it is productive of considerable advantage : 
but the clipped horse who has not this care taken of him, from the 
sudden exposure of the skin—the functions of which are so import¬ 
ant in the animal economy—becoming suspended, is very liable to 
become seriously diseased, and particularly to have fatal affections 
of the lungs. 
I consider singeing to possess the following advantages—the 
taking off a small portion, and, at the same time, sealing up the 
pores of the skin, and preventing the access of cold. It is also a 
very great economy in the application of shortening the coat. 
[We have seen this singeing apparatus, and think that it deserves 
a fair trial.—Y.] 
A CASE OF DIVISION OF FLEXOR TENDONS. 
By Mr. H. Daws, London. 
.Many horses are annually destroyed in this metropolis, after 
being subjected to much cruel and unnecessary treatment by blis¬ 
tering and firing, without any relief being afforded, for morbid 
contraction of the flexor tendons or (qy ?) muscles. 
Numerous cases, both successful and unsuccessful, of the divi¬ 
sion of the tendons for the relief of the disease have frequently 
appeared in The VETERINARIAN, much to the credit of our country 
correspondents. The following case came under my notice some 
time since. 
Feh. V^th, 1840. — A piebald horse had been affected with 
chronic contraction of the right hind leg, so much so, that at overv 
