Club foot : its causes, pathology and treatment.

  • Adams, William, 1936-
Date:
1873
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Credit: Club foot : its causes, pathology and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .^f^'- P/RESENTED- TO ■f%W>T-r^ . VALUE OF BtrSCUTANEOUS TENOTOMY IN VETERINARY SURGERY. TENOTOMY IN A EACE-HOESE * In compliance with your request, I have much pleasure in placing at your disposal the particulars of my case of tenotomy in a race-horse to which you have referred. I think with you, it bears a special interest, in a surgical point of view, in corroborating so fully the fact of strength in the intermediate structure, as this animal was subjected to repetition of severe tests, as authenticated by the published records of his career and achievements as a race-horse, his case being well known. In 1861, the Bay Colt, afterwards called Suspicion, by Alarm out of Blue Bell, had congenital deformity of one fore foot, due to insufficient length of the flexor perforans tendon. This condition being found persistent, I was consulted on his case by Mr. Henry Allington of St. Neots, who bred him— the colt being at the time of my examination sLv months old. I found that he could only tread on the front of the hoof, the entire sole of the foot presenting backwards and unable to touch the ground—the result at this period being that the front of the hoof was worn by contact with the ground, whilst * The following letter from Mr. Eoalfe Cox, the well-known veterinary surgeon of Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, is appended to the present work from the great interest of the case related; and it may perhaps direct more attention to subcutaneous tenotomy in veterinary surgery.