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rticular type existed and lameness was marked, and in three weeks the subjects were in service and not lame--this, in one instance in a valuable polo pony where the subject continued in service for more than a year without any evidence of recurrence of the lameness. The production of a deep-seated and acute inflammation with the actual cautery is preferable to any sort of counter-irritation which may be produced by vesicants. There is no occasion for any difference in the treatment of either of the first three classes of ringbone, but in the rachitic type where treatment is given, the application of a vesicant is all that is required. In most instances treatment is not necessary. The affected animals require a month to three months' time for recovery to take place in the average favorable cases of ringbone. Median neurectomy is of service in many instances where lameness is not completely relieved by the use of the actual cautery and no bad results attend the performance of this operation even though no benefit is derived thereby. Plantar neurectomy is contraindicated in all cases where there exists much lameness. If lameness is due to acute inflammation bad results such as sloughing and loss of the hoof may follow; and if large exostoses mechanically interfere with function of the joint, or where articular erosions exist, no possible good can come from neurectomy. Careful discrimination should be employed in selecting cases for neurectomy for this operation; otherwise, it is very likely to prove disappointing. Open Sheath of the Flexors of the Phalanges. This condition does not differ from a like affection involving other tendons except that the function of these tendons is such that large synovial sheaths are necessary, and when synovitis exists, the condition then becomes more serious. Infectious synovitis involving these tendons in the fetlock region is of more frequent occurrence than a like affection of carpal or tarsal sheaths. With the exception of the extent of the involvement and distress occasioned thereby, synovitis the result of open tendon sheaths, is similar wherever it occurs. Etiology.--The same conditions which are responsible for open fetlock joint and other wounds of the pastern region, cause open tendon sheaths of the flexor tendons. Symptomatology.--Because of the size and extent of this sheath and the different manner in which it is opened, there is manifested dissimilar sympto
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