58 SPAVINS, 



fufficknt length to admit of the vein's being 

 taken up, above and belov/ the enlargement, 

 by paffing a crooked needle, furnifhed with 

 a wax thread, underneath the vein, and mak-. 

 ing the ligatures at the parts mod applicable 

 to the extirpation intended. Should any in- 

 flammation or extreme Iwelling 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 digeilives till the exuberance is 

 floughed off with the drefiings, and the cica- 

 trization, or fkinning over, is acccmplifhed, 

 as in the cafe of abfcelTes and wounds, which 

 will be treated of hereafter, when we come to 

 that clafs. 



Every degree of information, obfervation, 

 and experimental invefligation, defines a bone 

 SPAVIN to be exadly in a greater degree be* 

 hhid what a splent is acknowledged 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 objed: 

 of concern and attention, to avoid the certain 



impediment 



