Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . h action has not been impaired by the operation; on thecontrary, it was vastly improved, compared with what it had beenprevious to it. And my experience has not been singular in thisrespect, as many competent horsemen can give like evidence afterlong and severe trials of neurotomised horses. The opponents ofneurotomy were probably not aware that there is in progressiona muscular as well as a tactile sense (Fleming). NEUEOTOMY. 671 INDICATIONS AND UNFAVOURABLE RESULTS.— Theeffects of neurotomy are certain an
Veterinary notes for horse owners : a manual of horse medicine and surgery . h action has not been impaired by the operation; on thecontrary, it was vastly improved, compared with what it had beenprevious to it. And my experience has not been singular in thisrespect, as many competent horsemen can give like evidence afterlong and severe trials of neurotomised horses. The opponents ofneurotomy were probably not aware that there is in progressiona muscular as well as a tactile sense (Fleming). NEUEOTOMY. 671 INDICATIONS AND UNFAVOURABLE RESULTS.— Theeffects of neurotomy are certain and durable when it is employedat the commencement of navicular disease, and when the ailmentis confined to one foot. It can be easily imagined that it is im-possible for the operation to be successful, when the navicularbone and tendon are destroyed by ulceration (Peuch and Tous-saintj. The same authors strongly recommend the operation in cases ofchronic lameness from sidebones; ringbones, except when they areaccompanied by bony union of the joint; chronic laminitis; in-. Fig. 170.—Horse in a cunvenicnt posiu-u lo L. .^ juries to the hoof which may have caused a bony formation on thepedal bone, or may have had the effect of increasing, to anabnormal extent, the local growth of the inner horn of the hoof,constant pain from pressure being the result in either case; orfrom surgical operations on the foot. English veterinarians con-sider that horses whose feet have suffered more or less fromlaminitis should not be un-nerved. Such feet are generally flat,and have weak soles and heels. 672 OPERATIONS. It is probable that inflammatory action iE5 less liable to beexcited in a neurotomisecL foot than in a sound one. It is evident that good results from high plantar neurectomy,can be confidently expected only when it is performed during anearly stage of a foot disease to which it is applicable. As an un-nerved horse when being shod, runs the risk ofbeing pricked without the owner
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