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Aug. 5.—Her bowels not responding to enemas, I put he!* 
finder nux vomicse, and in five days she had some foeces pass 
her. The wound is gradually healing, the discharge of saliva 
still continuing, but less in amount. 
Aug. 12.—Doing as well as could be expected, bowels being 
in good condition. Stop nux vomicse, but other treatment the 
same. 
Sept. 1.—The wound having healed, I removed the rubber 
pipe from the oesophagus, as she can swallow liquid food by taking 
the precaution of putting a pad over the wound, but am obliged 
to pour the food from a bottle, as she will not drink from a pail. 
Sept. 6.—She will now drink without any inconvenience from 
a bucket, but still have to use the pad over the wound, which is 
gradually healing, that of the oesophagus almost closed. 
Sept. 15.—Does not require the use of the pad over the wound 
while drinking. Since the operation the food has been in a fluid 
form, but now she receives cooked oats and meal with what grass 
she will eat. Give her exercise now every day and removed the 
slings. 
Oct. 1.—Can eat dry oats but not hay, so she is turned out to 
pasture and allowed one month to run, after which she was able 
to eat her usual food; light work was then ordered, and un¬ 
der careful management she soon regained her good condition, 
doing her owner good service. 
TARSAL TENOTOMY. 
Providence, R. I., June 29. 
Editor American Veterinary Review : 
Dear Sir: —You will find below a notice* from one of the 
local papers of this city of June 24tli, 1881, of an operation per- 
* Dr. George H. Bailey, V. S. , of Portland, Me., one of the judges at the races, 
made a very successful operation of tarsal-tenotomy for spavin, at Hobbs & 
Tuttel’s stables, yesterday, upon a valuable horse, in the presence of Drs. Scrut- 
ton and Burt and a large number of turf-men, in attendance at the races. The 
operation is almost a painless one for the animal, and is fast superceediug the 
old and much more painful one of firing and blistering. The operation was 
performed to show Rhode Island horsemen how they can save their favorite 
steppers. 
