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CASE II. 
VV. H. Griffiths, Esq., of this town, had a very beautiful little tho¬ 
rough-bred mare, which his daughter. Miss G., was accustomed 
to ride, and which was a great favourite. She became lame with 
the navicular disease; and, after every means that could be de¬ 
vised to cure or relieve her were tried without success, it w'as de¬ 
termined by the worthy owner to have her unnerved. I operated 
on her below the fetlock, and she got up perfectly sound ; and, 
after carrying Miss G. quite as safe as before the operation for 
eighteen months, she again became lame on the same foot. Mr. 
G. being much disappointed, as I was myself, by the nerve 
uniting, he was resolved to have another operation. I now un¬ 
nerved her above the fetlock. She was again sound, and resumed 
her old station for two years, when she was sold to a lady in 
Birmingham. This is an excellent case to shew they do not 
stumble in the way so often asserted. 
CASE III. 
In May 1833, I was requested to see a horse belonging to 
A. W. Corbett, Esq., of Sundern Castle, that was lame with the 
navicular disease : he had been bled in the toe, blistered on the 
coronet, &c. &c., without effect. Mr. Corbett wished to have him 
operated upon. I considered it a good case, one leg being only 
affected. I operated on him : he got up perfectly sound, and 
carried Mr. Corbett’s huntsman for two seasons, and was after¬ 
wards ridden as a hack. 
CASE IV. 
In the spring of 1836 I was sent for to Hawkstone, to examine 
a chesnut horse, the property of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., M.P. 
He had been lame on the near fore foot for six months; was bled 
in the toe, setoned in the frog, and every imaginable means to 
cure him had been uselessly tried. I recommended Sir Rowland 
to have him unnerved, which he agreed to: when the horse was 
brought out of the stable to be cast, the groom came to me, and 
said Sir Rowland would sell him for £25. The operation w^as 
performed; the horse became sound, and Sir Rowland sold him 
to a gentleman for a good round sum, far exceeding the £25. 
He hunted all last winter; and a friend of mine saw him stand¬ 
ing at a livery-stable in London last summer, to be sold—price 
100 guineas. 
I also this summer unnerved a six-year-old horse for Mr. 
Minton, of Astley, which had been lame for six months, and was 
