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OPERATION OF TENOTOMY IN THE HORSE. 
The position of the two limbs operated on is worthy of 
notice, as the altered outline of them indicates their form 
when an actual rupture of either tendon or ligament has 
taken place. (See woodcuts —III, division of tendon; IV, divi¬ 
sion of ligament.) These engravings are intended to represent 
the form of both the legs immediately after the operation. 
III. IV. 
1, shows the place of division of ligament. 2, that of tendon. 
I am not aware that the superior sesamoid ligament has been 
purposely divided, or its division even recommended in cases 
of deformity, before the year 1850, when I suggested that such 
an operation might be resorted to with comparative safety. 
I then stated that I had never performed the operation, but 
I should not hesitate to do so if a suitable case presented 
itself. Since that period I have operated, but only experi¬ 
mentally, on the case above referred to, yet the success 
attendant on it warrants me in recommending it worthy of 
trial. 
