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dissolved in distilled water^ into the eye, and at the end of 
four days by this treatment the inflammation had greatly 
abated. I then cauterized the herniated tumour with the 
nitrate of silver, which caused its disappearance in three days 
after, leaving only a sort of stigma, which was removed by 
blowing white, powdered sugar into the eye twice a day. 
Clinique Veterinaire, June, 1862. 
A CASE OE SPAVIN TREATED AND CURED BY THE SECTION 
OF THE TENDON OF THE CUNEIFORM BONE. 
By M. Mandel, Veteriuaire a Strasbourg. 
The subject of this case was an entire horse, of the Barbary 
breed, about twelve years old, and between fifteen and sixteen 
hands high {un metre soixante centimHres) . He had a large 
spavin on the ofP hock, from which the lameness was as 
follows :—In the walk the bearing was principally on the toe, 
and but seldom, and then imperfectly, on the other parts of 
the foot j flexion very marked and prolonged. Extension was 
painful and limited, on account of the size of the osseous 
tumour. There was dropping of the hip at every step taken, 
from the contraction and stiffness of’ the leg, owing to the 
permanent semiflexion of the hock. In extension, the leg 
moved all of a piece, like a broom in the act of sAveeping. 
All of these symptoms Avere more marked Avhen the horse Avas 
first brought out of the stable or hurried in his paces. 
When at rest, the leg Avas frequently drawn up by a sort of 
painful, nervous twitchings, which Avere at times so Auolent as 
to cause the foot to strike the abdomen. When standing, 
the toe only rested on the ground, jind at times he knuckled 
over on the fetlock; an attitude Avhich allows the flexion of 
the back and eases the pain, but is always attended by a 
loAvering of the hip. The standing over, or lateral changing 
of place, Avas ahvays performed Avith great difficulty and pain. 
Ifiie spavin or bony tumour occupies tAA^o thirds of the 
hock on the inside, just a little behind the saphena vein. It 
Avas hard and callous, insensible to the touch, and the skin 
covering it had some rough, hairy points, the effects of the 
actual cautery; Avhich had been repeatedly applied, which pre¬ 
vented the author ascertaining the state of the subjacent tissue. 
The horse having become the property of the author, he 
resolved, as a last resort, to try the operation recommended by 
AI. Lafosse, of Toulouse, in the eleventh volume of his ^ Veteri¬ 
nary Pathology,'’ Avhich consists in a section being made of the 
