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pony being a great favourite, he wished that I would pursue 
any treatment which I thought might give a chance of success : 
it occurred to me that neurotomy might be of service, and I de¬ 
termined upon the operation, by excising a portion of nerve just 
above the enlargement of bone. The pony was prepared in the 
usual way by bleeding and physic, and immediately after the 
operation there was a visible alteration in his action. I ordered 
that he should be turned out for three months, at the expiration 
of which time he was perfectly sound, and still continues so, 
although worked excessively hard : the pony was lame more or 
less, prior to the operation, for twelve months. 
The other case was a large brown cart geldirlg, which had been 
lame more or less, with ringbones and contracted hoofs, for seven 
years ; and when brought to me was so lame, that it was with dif¬ 
ficulty he could be urged along, and when moving was so tardy, 
that he would not throw scarcely any weight into his collar. He 
was brought to me about six months since to be nerved, as the 
owner termed it. He got up, after the operation, nearly sound; and 
there was such a visible difference in his action, that the owner, 
when he saw him, could scarcely believe it to be his own horse. 
He went to work about three weeks after operation, and became 
perfectly sound, and still continues so, although worked upon the 
hard roads in a coal waggon. 
VETERINARY SCHOOLS.—No. IV. 
COPENHAGEN. 
A fatal epidemic prevailed in Denmark, both among horses 
and cattle, in 1763. There was no veterinary school then in 
Denmark, and no adequate assistance could be obtained to arrest 
the progress of the disease. The Count de Bemstoff procured 
an order from the Danish government for the selection of three 
young men from the medical college at Copenhagen, who were 
to be sent to Lyons to study the veterinary art, at the newly- 
established school in that city. Messrs. Abildgaard, Muller, 
and Bachhuusen, were selected; or rather the first of them, who 
was already known as an excellent practitioner, as well as a man 
of general science, volunteered. 
M. Abildgaard, in a letter addressed to Messrs. Chabert, 
Flandrin, and Huzard, the editors of that valuable work “ In¬ 
structions et Observations sur les Maladies des AnimauxDomes- 
tiques,” frankly acknowledges that he and his colleagues com¬ 
menced their career at Lyons under the influence of very errone¬ 
ous impressions, and undervalued the patriotic intentions of 
