. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. 184 THE AMERICAN EARMEe's HORSE ^OOIC, nerve is exccedinglj^ painful. Chloroform .should, therefore, be used, or a solution of cocaine may be injected under the skin along the course of the nerve, producing local anaesthesia. High Nerving.—The high operation is performed thns: The horse being thrown by the hobbles, or other method, and the hair clipped A USEFUL KNIFE FOR NERVING, ETC. off the spot to be operated on (about one and a half inches above the fetlock joint, at the anterior
. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. 184 THE AMERICAN EARMEe's HORSE ^OOIC, nerve is exccedinglj^ painful. Chloroform .should, therefore, be used, or a solution of cocaine may be injected under the skin along the course of the nerve, producing local anaesthesia. High Nerving.—The high operation is performed thns: The horse being thrown by the hobbles, or other method, and the hair clipped A USEFUL KNIFE FOR NERVING, ETC. off the spot to be operated on (about one and a half inches above the fetlock joint, at the anterior edge of the back tendon), the skin is cut through with a knife, such as is here shown, the opening not needing to be more than an inch long. This will suiliciently expose / I, the loose tissues beneath, which are then to be cut through very carefulh\ The white nerve (that of sensation) will be found lying close to the tendon, with the artery in front of it, and the vein more forward still. The utmost care must be taken to divide the nerve without injuring any of the blood vessels; if, nevertheless, this should un- fortunately happen, they will have to be tied, and the blood sponged out of the cut. The nerve should be cut off as high as possible, during which the horse may strug- -' gle violently; then it is cut at the lower TJ-, end of the o[)ening, and in this way about ^^'~ three-fourths of an inch (»f the nerve re- BAD RKsuLTs FOLLOWING uiovcd. This uuiy thcu be repeated on HIGH NERVING, ^\^q oppositc sidc of the leg, the position of the nerve and vessels being the same on both sides. Low Nerving.—In this, the operating is done below^ the fetlock, in the depression easilj^ felt between the tendon and the bone, the point at which the nerve lies alongside the tendon, the same as men- tioned in describing the high form. It is divided, and a section of nerve removed in the same way as in high Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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