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2\st .—The medicine had operated well, and the cow looked 
more lively, and took a little grass. I ordered J oz. of nitre to be 
given to her every alternate day for a week, and desired the owner 
to let me know how she went on. 1 did not hear of her until lately, 
when the owner, whom I by chance saw, told me that she was 
quite well again. 
TWO CASES OF NEUROTOMY. 
By the same. 
CASE I. 
A CHESNUT pony, aged, the property ofR. Jopp, Esq.,of Seggat, 
one of the fastest trotters in the north, became lame on both fore 
feet, more than twelvemonths ago. She had been fired • and 
blistered round the coronets, and turned out to grass, but, when 
taken up, was little or none the better. On examining the pony, 
I found both the feet a good deal contracted, with a considerable 
degree of heat in the hoofs, which led me to suspect that she was 
affected with the navicular disease. I proposed to the owner 
that the nerve operation should be performed, to which he agreed. 
In the month of October last a portion of the nerves above the 
fetlock was excised in both fore legs. The mare got up sound ; the 
wounds healed up kindly; and in the course of a month the owner 
was upon her back again, and she now continues doing her 
ordinary work, without the least symptoms of lameness. 
CASE II. 
November, 1832.—A brown horse, 5 years old, the property of 
A. Wilson, Esq., of Tochineal, about a twelvemonth ago became 
lame, in consequence of contraction in the off fore foot. He was 
blistered twice round the coronet, and turned out for a summer’s 
run at grass : he came up sound ; but the off fore foot was still con¬ 
siderably smaller than the other. As soon as the owner began to 
ride him, he again became lame. I mentioned the nerve operation, 
and recommended that it should be tried; to which the owner 
consented, as the horse was perfectly useless in his present state. 
I operated, as in the above case, on the off fore leg : the horse, 
when released, got up sound, to the surprise of the bystanders, one 
of whom exclaimed, It was curious that sic a sma’ wormie could 
ha’e made him sae terrible lame.” The wounds healed up in 
three weeks, and the horse is now perfectly sound. 
