MEANS OF BESTKAINT. 



Fig. 16.— The Stock. 



performance a degree of deliberation and an amount of dissection 

 of the most painful character, with which only the most absolute 

 passivity, if not complete unconsciousness, is compatible. In this 

 class of cases the recumbent position in the patient becomes sim- 

 ply an indispensable requii'ement. 



To throio or cast a horse signifies simply to apply the force 

 necessary to compel or induce him to He down, and to continue 

 in that position during the pleasure of the surgeon. The forms 

 of compulsion by which the desired result is to be effected are 

 next to be considered. 



It would be improper to construe the word "throwing" as 



