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from his mouth to his lungs inclusive and could find nothing 
abnormal. The other I am going to keep until I hear from 
you. I have put him in a barn, where no other horses are kept, 
and will keep him there. Although the same veterinarian 
called in the other cases says there is no danger of the other 
horses getting it, why did one horse become so and then the 
other two, all that were in the barn in the first case? And in 
this case the team that have been worked together and stood 
together are affected ? I have never seen anything of the kind 
nor have I seen it described. If you can help me any, will you 
please do so at your earliest convenience. 
Yours respectfully, 
D. B. Doughty. 
OPERATIONS FOR STRINGHART. 
Wauseon, Ohio, January 7, 1899. 
Prof. A. Liautard: 
Dear Sir :—I write you for information as to the operation 
described for springhalt on page 576 of the November number 
of the American Veterinary Review. I do not understand 
which tendons the writer means he cut off the second time. I 
understand that the peroneus or extensor pedis brevis was the 
first tendon cut off, but then in the second operation I do not 
know what one he means. Please help me get the right of it, 
if you please. 
The reason I am so anxious to know is I have a horse I 
drive that I bought which was springhalted in both hind legs. 
I cut off the peroneus or extensor pedis brevis in each leg, and 
in two weeks he was cured. That was in December, 1896, and 
the horse continued all right till last week, when he began to 
jerk up the right leg. 
If I can get to understand the article on page 576 of Novem¬ 
ber Review I will try it. Yours respectfully, 
A. J. Kuine. 
[The second tenotomy was done on the same tendon (the 
lateral extensor), but below the first operation, a little above its 
union with the tendon of the anterior extensor.—A. R.] 
THE EAST DAYS OF THE RATE DR. MEYER. 
2230 St. James Ave., Cincinnati, Feb. 24, 1899. 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
GenTremen : — Accept the most heartfelt thanks from my¬ 
self and family for the kind tribute tendered to the memory of 
