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MEANS OF RESTRAINT. 



Fig. 29.— ith Position. Securing Under Fore on Upper Hind Leg. 



forward ^mder the forearm of the near fore leg, between the 

 fore legs and back to the assistant at the back of the animal. In 

 this action it again becomes a lever of the first kind, with the 

 fulcrums above the hock, the resistance at the lower part of the 

 near fore leg and the moving power at the forearm. The leg is 

 drawn from its deep position to a superficial one, and secured 

 with a figure eight on the middle of the near hind cannon, and 

 not above the hock, for reasons already considered. This posi- 

 tion is only justifiable for operations on the inside of the near 

 fore foot, such as complicated quarter- crack, complicated suppu- 

 rative corns, inside cartilaginous quittor, and the like. The pe- 

 culiar awkwardness of this position, in which the leg is carried 

 in excessive adduction subjects the animal to the danger of severe 



Fig. 30.— 5th Position. Securing Under Hind on Upper Fore Leg. 



