. A treatise on surgical therapeutics of domestic animals. Veterinary surgery; Therapeutics, Surgical. 3i8 VETEkllSfARV StJRGlCAL THERAPEUTICS. the first degree—and the actions of the animal are again free, the trouble may disappear by exercise. If already the deviation is more accused, the overtaxed bony levers become inflamed ; the tendons, carrying no longer their share of the weight of the body, retract more and more, and thus> generally speaking, tenotomy must be resorted to. By turn highly recom- mended and again objected to severely, this operation often gives imme- diate and remarka
. A treatise on surgical therapeutics of domestic animals. Veterinary surgery; Therapeutics, Surgical. 3i8 VETEkllSfARV StJRGlCAL THERAPEUTICS. the first degree—and the actions of the animal are again free, the trouble may disappear by exercise. If already the deviation is more accused, the overtaxed bony levers become inflamed ; the tendons, carrying no longer their share of the weight of the body, retract more and more, and thus> generally speaking, tenotomy must be resorted to. By turn highly recom- mended and again objected to severely, this operation often gives imme- diate and remarkable results, but quite as often the results are far from satisfactory. Exposed tenotomy is no longer performed. The subcutane- ous method is used in our day. The animal is first shod properly. If the perforans alone is to be divided, the foot, with the heels pared away, should have a shoe with an elongated toe, so as to throw the weight of the body upon the posterior parts of the foot. In double tenotomy, to avoid the dropping of the fetlock backwards, the orthosomes of Brogniez and of Defays, or, better, the immovable bandages (Didot, Delwart), are recom- mended. (See Tendinous Wounds^ Whether a fore or hind leg is to be operated, the animal is cast on the opposite side, the leg left in the hobble. A rope is placed round the foot, another above the knee or the hock. The skin is wash- ed, shaved, asepsized on the middle third of the external face of the canon. Two in- struments, straight and curv- ed tenotomes, are necessary. Instead of the ^raight teno- tome, a narrow scalpel or bistoury can be used (fig. 77.) Placed in front of the knee or near the hock, by careful exploration of the tendons the sepatation which exists between them is readily made out; when the tendons are surrounded by indurated tis- sue, this separation is not so readily made out. On the hind leg the middle of the canon is the spot of elec- Fig. 77-—Knuckling and phalangeal perios- tion, on the fore leg
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