UNIFORM STANDARD OF VETERINARY EDUCATION. • 683 
the twitch to his nose and flexing the leg across a chair, or 
lay him on a table, or cast him, apply tourniquet to the fore 
arm to prevent hemorrhage, make an incision just below the 
fetlock on the edge of the tendon, three-fourths of an inch 
long, take up the posterior digital nerve and excise an inch of 
it. Repeat the operation on the other side of the leg. Dress 
the wounds with an antiseptic lotion, bandage the leg to main¬ 
tain the lips of the wounds in apposition and keep the bandage 
wet with the lotion till healing has taken place, which will 
usually occur by first intention. Leave the shoe on for a 
couple of weeks, then it may be removed and let him run 
out for a month, or shoe him with a light plain shoe, letting 
the heels down into their natural position. 
These cases will go sound immediatelv after the oper¬ 
ation, but may go lame again after a week or two from slight 
inflammation in the cut end of the nerve; this will disappear 
after a few days, also the heat in the heels, and the horse will 
go all right and do both fast and draught work satisfactorily 
with no unfavorable results. The high operation cannot be 
too strongly condemned, except in case of incurable ring¬ 
bone, for it deprives the foot of its nerve power, which 
leads on to degeneration, swelling, thrombosis, necrosis and 
death. • The improvement in the foot after the low operation 
in my opinion is due to the removal of the sensation. This 
removes irritability, the parts return to their normal functions 
and the health of the tissues is largely restored. Cocaine in 
a three per cent, solution may be resorted to before the oper¬ 
ation, by injecting a little over the nerve to prove the diagnosis, 
and at the time of the operation to deaden the sensibility. 
UNIFORM STANDARD OF VETERINARY EDUCATION. 
By Dr. W. H. Pendry, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
(A paper read before the Long Island Veterinary Society). 
In selecting a subject for your consideration this evening, 
I may possibly disappoint some of those who have a more 
practical turn of mind, yet the question submitted I consider 
