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CLASPS AND TOE-CRACKS. 
to 3 inches long. At one end there is a hook, Vachette elasp ; 
style ; at the other a little band, raised perpendicular to the rod, 
and which is perforated with a thread cut through the hole. j 
The correspondings of each half of the clasps are made to meet 
and are brought together by a screw which can be made tight, 
more or less, so as to hold firmly together both edges of the ^ 
crack when the instrument is in place. A cautery, made also ! 
Vachette style, is necessary to burn in the wall a notch to per- ; 
mit the introduction of the hook of the clasp, and also make a . i 
groove for the reception of both metallic rods which once j 
screwed together prevent any motion of the two edges of the ■ 
seamed wall. It is claimed that this instrument will hold firm 
forever, and permit the essential requirements for radical re- ; 
covery to take place, viz., the cicatrization of the solution of 
continuity at the coronary band. 
What was most peculiar and to our mind most amusing in 
the presentation of the instrument at the Societe Centrale was the 
objection that was raised in relation to the publication of figures 
illustrating the instrument by itself and in position on the foot 
—under the pretext that it would be too expensive, not for this 
case only, but a bad precedent, as others might demand the 
same. As those publications are made in one journal, and as that ' 
journal, we believe, is a handsome paying institution, to us, 
with our American ideas of go-ahead in journalism, the refusal i 
to have a wood-cut made under the excuse given above, has 
seemed to us very peculiar, to say the least. ! 
More liberal than our French confreres^ I send you the wood- 
cuts from photos by Prof. Lignieres, of Alfort, which will make 
the whole description more interesting. A. L. ! 
Paris, France, July lo, 1897. ’ I 
The Manitoba Veterinary Association is of opinion I 
that the name of the United States Veterinary Medical Associa¬ 
tion should be changed to the American Veterinary Association, 
so that the veterinarians of Canada and other American countries 
might be encouraged to affiliate. 
