Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Möller's operative veterinary surgery / translated and edited from the second enlarged and improved edition of 1894 by Jno. A.W. Dollar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![purpose the shoe is removed, and the ground surface of llie hoof, and especially of the white line, well cut out, so that the position of the nail holes can easily be detected. (For further directions, see p. 673.) If it is necessary to expose a nail tract, it should first be followed through the horn of the sole and white line, the wall being spared, so as to preserve a sufficient bearing surface for the next shoeing. Causes.—Want of care and skill on the part of the farrier is the usual cause of stabs or prick.=!, though they may be due to bad feet and to the animal's restiveness, without any fault on the part of the farrier. Carelessness in shoeing is shown by the nail holes being misdirected, and by their occurring at points where there was not sufficient horn to warrant the driving of a nail. The usual causes of stabbing are coarsely punched nail holes and insufficient horn; stubs left in the feet rarely occasion pricks by causing the nail to deviate from its normal direction. The first step in treatment is to remove the nail and shoe. Pro- vided suppuration has not set in, cold applications, in the form of foot- baths or poultices, may be tried. The parts must be cleansed, and infection prevented by giving the animal plenty of clean bedding, and, if necessary, applying a suitable dressing. Once suppuration occurs, treatment follows the above-described principles. II.-PICKED-UP NAILS. PURULENT CELLULITIS OF THE FIBRO-FATTY FROG. RESECTION OF THE FLEXOR PEDIS PERFORANS. The above title will, for convenience, be regarded as including all injuries caused by the animal treading on foreign bodies which thus penetrate the soft structures of the foot. Such bodies include nails and wire, as well as pieces of iron or glass. As the horny sole usually offers sufficient protection, such foreign bodies almost invariably enter through the frog, and may injure the fleshy and fibro-fatty frogs,^ or, in exceptional cases, even the flexor pedis perforans tendon, os pedis, or os naviculare. Cases have been recorded of injury even to the os coronre. The foreign body usually glides off the bars and penetrates the side or furrow of the frog. Provided injury is confined to the surface of the fleshy frog, no bad results usually follow; but should the fibro-fatty frog be involved, dif- fuse purulent cellulitis may set in, suppuration may extend to the flexor pedis perforans tendon, and be followed by necrosis of the latter and ^ On account of their different behaviour wlien injured, Prof. Mbller appears to distin- guish—(1) a liorny frog ; (2) a sensitive frog ; and (3) a tibro-fatty frog. Tlie two latter are usually included under the term plantar cushion.—[Teansl.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193986x_0705.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
