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the leg above the hock. The like proceeding is to be adopted 

 with the other leg. The operator is next to push the body of the 

 foetus forwards by either placing his hand against the breech, or 

 employing for the purpose an instrument similar to an ordinary 

 crutch : by these eftbrts he will succeed in flexing the hock-joints 

 and be enabled to pass the loops downwards to the fetlocks. 

 Having accomplished this, a careful manipulation will allow of 

 his bringing up the feet towards the os uteri, and ultimately so to 

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