Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ssion which his feet cansafely bear, and is consequently liable to knock them about un-necessarily; but in the latter we find, from the fact of his goinglevel, that he does not (accidents excepted) put more weighton the un-nerved foot than he does on the one whose senseof feeling is intact. Besides, he is specially liable to suffer fromthe ill consequences of injuries which in his case are oftengreatly aggravated by unintentional neglect, owing to theabsence of lameness. THE OPERATION.—In order to effect a rapid heali
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . ssion which his feet cansafely bear, and is consequently liable to knock them about un-necessarily; but in the latter we find, from the fact of his goinglevel, that he does not (accidents excepted) put more weighton the un-nerved foot than he does on the one whose senseof feeling is intact. Besides, he is specially liable to suffer fromthe ill consequences of injuries which in his case are oftengreatly aggravated by unintentional neglect, owing to theabsence of lameness. THE OPERATION.—In order to effect a rapid healing of thewound, and to diminish as much as possible, the subsequent scar,the operator should strictly adopt, as regards his hands, instru-ments, and the skin of the part, the antiseptic precautions de-scribed on p. 70. It is well to use an Esmareh bandage and NEUEOTOMY. 673 tourniquet (p. 682), to keep the part in a bloodless condition, andthus to facilitate th© finding of the nerve, which will be a greatassistance to inexperienced operators, who are apt to become con-. Fig. 171.—Greeners Humane Cattle-killer. fused by a continued flow of blood. To anyone who is conversantwith the anatomy of the part and who has a fair amount of self-possession, these aids are in no way essential to success; for thediscovery of the nerve to such a one is a veiy easy matter. The
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