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ward wa> of the hair ; the vein being raised 

 as high as you require, strike the phleme with 

 your blood-stick in the centre of the vein. Let 

 your assistant receive the flowing blood in a 

 bucket, whilst you replace your tackle, and 

 prepare, with a pin and tow, to bind up the 

 orifice. This being done, let a wet sponge be 

 applied, and remove the blood. 



In abstracting blood, it should be an invari- 

 able rule never to let it fall on the ground. A 

 bucket IP generally the usual utensil for re- 

 ceiving blood in. By chance you sometimes 

 meet with a graduated can, in well regulated 

 stables, and exceedingly useful it is ; as then 

 you have a certain measure, by which you 

 can regulate the quantity of blood you wish to 

 take. You will frequently find you take much 

 more on the graduated principle, than if you 

 trusted t. chance. As for example: in a 

 large Horse, with a strong attack of inflam- 

 mation upon him, on the first bleeding the 

 recovery mainly depends. You are here work- 

 ing in the dark ; for it will be next to an 

 impossibility to ascertain what quantity of 

 blood is taken, without some measure for a 

 guide. 



In all inflammatory afiections, it is import- 

 ant to draw the blood from a large orifice, and 

 as quickly as possible, though the general 

 system may be weakened from hastily draw- 

 ing blood ; but the disease gives way to such 

 treatment much quicker than if blood was 

 drawn from a small orifice. 



There are two kinds of blood-letting, what 

 is termed local and general. 



Local blood-letting is abstracting blood as 

 near to the part affected as possible ; and a 

 few ounces thus abstracted, frequently does 

 more good than if you took a quart from the 

 system generally. 



General bleeding is that, wherein the sys- 

 tem at large partakes of the operation, de- 

 pleted by the stores more immediately derived 

 from the heart. 



Blood-letting, in veterinary practice, is very 

 important. The amazing quickness with 

 which some diseases run their course, and 

 which appear to be only arrested by blood- 

 letting, is in many instances to be considered 

 as our only sheet-anchor ; and therefore is so 

 much resorted to in most fevers, and those 

 internal inflammatorj affections, to which the 

 Horse is so exceedingly liable. Blood-letting 

 is also important as a criterion of the state of 

 the disease, certain appearances of the ab- 

 stracted fluid presenting certain indications 

 which act as a guide for our future treatment. 

 Indeed, if it were not from a knowledge of the 

 different states of the blood and the pulse, we 

 should be liable to be in continual error ; 

 therefore, the state of the blood in health, as 

 well as in sickness, should be well attended 

 to, 



ON PURGING. 



Purging, it is well known, is produced in 

 the Horse, in order to renovate him, and to 

 bring him into condition ; and though it may 

 be treated so lightly by a great many persons, 

 still purging is a very important matter, es- 

 pecially when we read of the number of race, 

 and other Horses, that annually fall victims 

 on account of the bad management they re- 

 ceive during the time of their physic. Though 

 almost every groom, with that self-conceit, 

 which so distinguishes this class of persons, 

 declares he can put a Horse through his doses 

 of physic as well as any man. But were you 

 to ask him how the medicine acts, or if things 

 do not go on quite so well as expected, he is 



