164 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



*' In pinning up the orifice, some have a custom 

 of raising or drawing out the skin too far from the 

 vein ; hence the blood flows from the orifice in the 

 vein into the cellular membrane between it and the 

 skin, which causes a large lump or swelhng to take 

 place immediately. This frequently ends in a swelled 

 neck ; a suppuration follows, which proves both tedious 

 and troublesome to cure. In cases where a horse may 

 be tied up to the rack after bleeding in the neck, pin- 

 ning up the external orifice may be dispensed with ; 

 but when a horse is troubled with the gripes, or any 

 other acute disease, in which he Ues down and tumbles 

 about, it is necessary that the orifice be pinned up with 

 care in order to prevent its bleeding afresh. As the 

 jugular- vein on the near side is commonly chosen for 

 conveniency by those who are right-handed, the young 

 practitioner should learn to perform on both sides 

 of the neck. 



" This he will find in practice to be not only useful 

 but sometimes necessary, as he may frequently have 

 occasion to draw blood from horses in very awkward 

 situations : he will likewise find it useful in a va- 

 riety of cases which it is needless here to particu- 

 larise. 



" The proper place for making the opening in the 

 neck or jugular-vein is likewise necessary to be attended 

 to, for when the orifice is made too low, or about the 

 middle of the neck, where the vein Ues deep under the 

 muscular teguments, the wound becomes difficult to 

 heal, and frequently ends in suppuration, with a pro- 

 trusion of proud-flesh from the orifice, which, un- 

 luckily, is as unskilfully treated in the common method 

 of cure, namely, by introducing a large piece of corro- 

 sive sublimate into the wound ; this not only destroys 

 the proud-flesh in the lips of the wound, but also a 



