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him three days after. I had the horse cast and properly 
secured, made a longitudinal incision, about two inches in 
length, between the flexor tendon and metacarpal bone on 
the outside of the near fore leg, midway between the knee 
and fetlock, laying bare the nerve, artery, and vein; with the 
finger of my left hand I kept them back, and with the knife 
in the other hand, I at once divided the tendons, taking care 
not to cut through the skin on the opposite side. The ends 
of the divided tendons immediately separated from each other 
to the extent of about an inch and a half. I then placed my 
knee in front of the fetlock, and with a little force the leg was 
made to assume a straight position. The animal was now 
freed from the hobbles, and got up; a bandage of fine 
tow with creosote liniment was applied, and sometimes the 
wound was dressed with a solution of chloride of zinc, and 
in two months he was sent to work in a cart, and continues 
to work well to this day, wearing a shoe elevated at the 
heels. 
FILARIA OCULI. 
By “ Miles.” 
I forward to you a worm extracted from the off eye of a 
horse by a friend of mine. Three months ago, a worm was 
taken from the near eye, and in five vreeks after the operation 
the animal had quite recovered the sight thereof, there being 
only a little opacity remaining where the opening had been 
made into the anterior chamber through the cornea. Seven 
weeks subsequent to this operation, a worm was observed 
floating about in the other eye, causing, of course, much 
opacity, and nearly total blindness of that eye. Mr. FI— 
again operated successfully, and the case is now doing well. 
The horse will quite recover the sight of the off, as he has 
already done of the near eye. 
The first worm was lost, as it escaped with the aqueous 
humour, and got among the straw of the casting bed. There 
w r as, how T ever, no doubt whatever as to its being a worm 
similar to the one sent you, for we saw it as plainly as pos¬ 
sible before and during the preparations for the operation. 
The horse from w r hom it was taken is a healthy Arab, eight 
years old. Is it not strange that a second worm should 
appear, and in the other eye too ? I have seen this occur 
once before, but I believe it is not very common. 
