58 SPAVINS. 



fufRcient length to admit of the vein's being 

 taken up, above and below the enlargement, 

 by paffing a crooked needle, furnifhed v^dth 

 a v^ax thread, underneath the vein, and mak- 

 ing the ligatures at the parts moft applicable 

 to the extirpation intended. Should any in- 

 flammation or extreme fwelling attend the 

 parts after operation, warm fomentations and 

 mild poultices muft be made ufe of till they 

 fubfide ; after which the wound muft be treat- 

 ed with digeftives till the exuberance is 

 Houghed off with the dreffings, and the cica- 

 trization, or fkinning over, is accompliflied, 

 as in the cafe of abfcefles and wounds, which 

 will be treated of hereafter, when we come to 

 that clafs. 



Every degree of information, obfervation, 

 and experimental inveftigation, defines a bone 

 SPAVIN to be exadlly in a greater degree ie- 

 y&/W w^hat a splent is acknov/ledged to be 

 before-, formed nearly by the fame means, 

 fed nearly in the fame manner, differing only 

 in its critical fituation; which from a con- 

 tiguity to the joints, and ligamentary appen- 

 dages, becomes fo much the more an objedt 

 of concern and attention, to avoid the certain 



impediment 



