262 PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE NAVICULAR JOINT. 
from the different treatment of the 33 calves, I feel perfectly satis¬ 
fied it is from being exposed to the chilling winds in the autumn, 
and lying on the damp ground, that causes the chill in the system. 
After they are once seized, there is no cure. Depend on it a pre¬ 
ventive is better than a cure. The preventive, I consider, is dry 
feeding, and laying (lying 1) as early as the third week in Sep¬ 
tember. 
“ I remain, your’s, &c. 
'' A Yeoman of Dorset.” 
At the present moment I have only leisure to express an earnest 
wish, that the veterinary profession will turn their attention to this 
very material point, as regards the welfare of the agricultural world; 
at the same time, I express my opinion that the day will come 
when the in-door system of keeping cattle and sheep will become 
general in Great Britain; and, moreover, that, despite the preju¬ 
dice of landlords, practical agriculturists will be convinced, that 
the less of what is called moderate meadow-land they have in their 
occupation, the better will it be for their stock, and, consequently, 
for their pockets. 
Nimrod. 
PUNCTURED WOUNDS OF THE NAVICULAR JOINT 
SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY NEUROTOMY. 
By Mr. Harry Daws, Gresse Street. 
A young bay mare was received into my infirmary on the 10th 
July, 1838, with a puncture of the near hind foot, which she had 
received from a nail accidentally picked up in the street whilst 
engaged in her usual work. 
The nail had pierced the navicular joint through the outer 
commissure, in a backward and upward direction. 
The lameness was considerable, and much constitutional de¬ 
rangement supervened. Antiphlogistic measures were adopted. A 
copious discharge of synovia flowed freely from the wound in the 
foot for some time. It was at last arrested by the pulv. alum comp. 
Various ulcerations in the heel and around the coronet now ensued : 
they, however, in due time yielded to the treatment adopted. 
From the time the animal received the injury, she never put her 
heel to the ground. 
A patten shoe was applied to the foot, in order to induce her to 
throw a portion of her weight upon the affected leg. 
Aug. —The wounds are all cicatrized, the horny sole has 
sloughed, and a new one has been secreted in its stead. The lame- 
