TREATMENT OF INJURIES OF TENDONS. 
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of about two inches in length by one and one-quarter inches in 
width, crushing through the sheath, the posterior tendon, and 
severely injuring the other. 
The fetlocks both went down and the toes turned up slightly. 
The animal exhibited evidence of great distress with profuse 
diaphoresis and nervous excitement to a degree pitable to behold. 
I make it a rule to inject hypodermically five or six grains of 
morphia to allay pain and render the dressing of the injured ten¬ 
dons easier. 
I had the animal supported by placing a plank under the ab¬ 
dominal region, the ends held by a couple of lusty fellows, while 
with the aid of another I placed a large roll of oakum around the 
legs from the lower border of the hock to the foot, over which I 
passed all the bandages I could make out of a light road blanket. 
An ambulance had arrived by this time, the animal was placed in 
a sling and taken quietly to the stable, a distance of about four 
miles, arriving there at about one o’clock in the morning. He 
was carefully removed from the ambulance, carried into the stable, 
placed on the elevator, sent upstairs, carried to a stall and placed 
in slings. He was given another hypodermic injection of morphia, 
allowed oatmeal water and hay until morning, when shoes contain¬ 
ing a bar running across the heels, elevated three and one-half 
inches from the floor, were nailed on. This standing on an inclined 
plane has been one of the most strikingly beneficial features with 
me in the way of treatment of this class of injuries. I prefer 
having the bar to extend backward and from the heels, sufficient 
to give a good foothold on the floor. 
The following morning, on removing the dressing preparatory 
to setting up in plaster of paris bandages, the extent of the injuries 
were so formidable that I determined to hermetically seal with 
plaster bandages the legs from the lower border of the hocks to 
the coronet, as a means of support, intending to remove sufficient 
for an opening for dressing further on when the discharge forming 
would warrant. Acting on this impulse, I dressed with a two and 
one-half per cent, solution of carbolic acid, dusted the wound over 
with powdered willow charcoal, covered the leg with oakum, and 
applied plaster bandages immersed in water to moisten the plaster 
contained in the meshes of the muslin. I generally apply three 
