MY EXPERIENCE WITH MEDIAN NEURECTOMY. 
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argentum nitras, 0.016, t. i. cl., with bicarbonate potash solu¬ 
tion (5 per cent.). 
For chorea give 
Liq. arsenalis, 2.00 
Syr. simplices. 98.6 
Sig. 4.00 t. i. d. 
For paralysis, strychnia in progressive doses. Electricity. 
For goitre, unguentum iodi co. ; internally, potassi iodidum. 
For opacities or leucoma, Europhen, tannate of glycerine, 
or dust with calomel. 
I* Hydrargyri flavum oxidum, 0.066 
Vaseline 4.00, or protogol 5 per cent. sol. 
M. Unguentum. 
Sig. Apply daily. 
MY EXPERIENCE WITH MEDIAN NEURECTOMY. 
By J. Payne Low*e, D. V. S., Passaic, N. J. 
A Paper read before the Veterinary Medical Association of New jersey, at Newark, 
May 10, 1900. 
In bringing before you the subject of median neurectomy 
it is my intention mainly to give you my experience with the 
operation ; to be modest, to cite a number of cases which I 
have operated upon during the past year or two, giving you 
accurately and impartially the pathological conditions for which 
the operation was performed in each case, the immediate result, 
and the subsequent history to date. In doing this I hope to be 
able to show that median neurectomy is an operation that is 
practicable and safe, and that the practitioner should perform it 
without hesitancy wherever it is indicated. 
Familiarize or rather refresh your mind with the surgical 
anatomy of the region, which you can get from any of the 
standard authorities on veterinary anatomy. The anatomical 
•essentials, however, can probably be more readily obtained by 
referring directly to that most excellent treatise on this opera¬ 
tion by Prof. C. Pellerin and translated into English by our 
own Eiautard. 
Where the operating table cannot be used the animal is cast 
