Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds].

  • Badcock, John, active 1816-1830
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Veterinary surgery / [John Hinds]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ately at the seat of the evil. Bleeding in the foot is the only exception we should make ; unless the practice of incising the bars of the mouth when the animal will not take his corn, be another, or at least not of importance sufficient to be mentioned at all, I even as an exception. I The jugular vein being sought for where it is I largest and nearest the surface, this will be found i upon pressing it with the finger, a hand’s breadth I from the setting on of the head, a very little below I the place where a branch comes from the lower I jaw, and joins another from the upper part. The Frenchman instructs his mareclial thus pithily on this topic, as on several others-—Do not bleed your horse in the head, but as near to it as pos- sihleT Its situation being thus found, take the fleam between the fore-finger and thumb of the left hand, and pressing gently upon the vein below with the other fingers, the vein will rise; then strike, with stick or spring, as the case may be, ! and continue the pressure until the proper quantity of blood is drawn off. If this latter necessary at- ! tendance is found inconvenient, the ligature may I now be applied without danger, but with no addi- , tional advantage. i Pinning up the orifice is the final part of blood- I letting that is frequently overdone; that is to say, ! too much of the skin is drawn up over the orifice i of the vein, so that the blood will flow underneath i the skin, which causes a swelling; and a fistulous j tumour is the consequence, that is very trouble-