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C. E. CLAYTON. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
MEDIAN NEURECTOMY. 
By C. E. Clayton, D. V. S., Assistant Surgeon, American Vet¬ 
erinary College, New York. 
Read before the March meeting of New York County Veterinary Medical Association. 
Before entering upon the operation, its results, the indica¬ 
tions and contra-indications, let us briefly review its history. C. 
Pellerin in his little work on this subject, which was translated 
by Prof. Riautard for our benefit, states that, to the best of his 
knowledge, Peter, of the Berlin Veterinary School, was the 
first to perforin it and read an article on the subject December 
2, 1885, before the Society of Veterinary Practitioners of Berlin. 
Then followed Ries, of Ettelbrnck, in an article entitled “ A 
Veterinary Excursion in Belgium,” in which he asks the follow¬ 
ing questions : Is gangrene, as an accident subsequent to neu¬ 
rectomy, the termination of a more or less severe laminitis, or 
is chronic laminitis a special complication of section of the me¬ 
dian nerve? Again, in 1893, Kull, a German, reports good re¬ 
sults on a horse that suffered with ringbone and a disease of the 
foot not named. 
I11 1894 Baldoni, of the Milan School, published a pamphlet 
upon this operation, and again in 1894 Pellerin issued an article 
on new cases which he had operated upon since his article of 
1892. 
So much for the history, which is quite brief, but sufficient 
for our purpose and for which we are greatly indebted to C. Pel¬ 
lerin, and Prof. Liautard for the translation. Let us now take a 
brief review of the surgical anatomy of the parts upon which 
the operation is performed, which includes the skin of the axilla, 
lower part of sterno-aponeuroticus and its aponeurosis, antibra- 
chial fascia, superior extremity of radius, internal flexor of meta¬ 
carpus, artery, vein and nerve, the last three being the most im¬ 
portant. 
The nerve, as you all know, has its origin from eighth cervi- 
