SECURING SOLIPEDS. 



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lesions in the axillary region, and it is justifiable only in the cases 

 specified. 



Fifth position — Securing the near hind on the cannon of the 

 off fore leg. — The rope is first tied up by a loop on the middle of 

 the near hind cannon bone, forward over the forearm of the off 

 fore leg, between the fore legs, and back to under the near hind 

 leg, between the hind legs and to the back of the animal, where it is 

 held by an assistant. The leg is again drawn from under him, is 

 steadily brought to below the knee of the off forearm and secured 

 as in the other positions. In this position the only operations 

 to be performed are those on the inside of the digital region, or 

 rather of the foot of that leg. 



Fig. 31.— 6th Position. 



Sixth position — Securing the off hind leg near the neck or 

 shoxdder of that side of the body. — The rope is tied up by a loop 

 around the coronet of the off hind leg, that is below the fetlock, 

 carried forward toward the superior border of the neck, under 

 the neck and then toward the inferior border of that region, back 

 over the whole length of the animal to the front of the hind legs, 

 between these and over the tibial region of the off hind leg, where 

 an assistant holds it to the back. Other assistants, pulling on 

 the rope, and making it sHde as it passes on the borders of the neck, 



