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This must be applied every two or three hours for 

 two or three days ; if the animal is at all plethoric a 

 mild dose of medicine may be administered. 



It will be needless here to enumerate the many di- 

 seases where bleeding will be absolutely necessary; 

 under the head of each separately the subject has been 

 discussed, and either recommended or disapproved 

 of: in times when the horse is shedding his coat it is 

 improper, also after excessive purging by medicine or 

 otherwise 



Carriage and draught-horses should never be worked 

 for two or three days after the operation, as the pin 

 may be forced out, the orifice may open and the 

 wound burst out anew, which would be exceedingly 

 dangerous in the night, as it might bleed some time 

 before the accident was discovered, and the horse 

 reduced to great weakness from the excessive loss 

 of blood. 



Besides the jugular-vein, which is generally the best 

 and most easily got at, blood is taken at times from 

 any of the superficial veins, especially when the inflam- 

 matory symptoms are local. The plate-vein is often 

 used when the shoulder or any part of the fore-leg is 

 afiected ; and the saphcena, or thigh -vein, which runs 

 across the inside of the thigh, in diseases of the hinder 

 legs and extremities. 



All instruments used in bleeding should be very 

 sharp and clean, and after every operation they should 

 be carefully wiped, and never put into the case till 

 perfectly dry, for the edge soon corrodes and will then 

 be useless. 



In bleeding in the jugular-vein, the greatest care is 

 requisite, for when that becomes diseased or afiected 

 the cure is very tedious and difiicult. When inflam- 

 mation of the vein is obstinate, the orifice of the wound 



