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pulleys enable the attendant to elevate or lower the animal 

 at pleasure. In general, it is not advisable to lift him quite 

 off the ground : the horse is most at ease when his feet 

 touch the earth. The head should also be confined by two 

 collar-reins, and the headstall should be padded. Though 

 horses in such strange situations may plunge a good deal at 

 first, in general they are soon resigned to their trammels, and 

 become altogether as quiet. 



The frontispiece will convey sufficient notion of the requisites for 

 this slinging apparatus, also its mode of application, so as to enable any 

 person to fit up tackle of the kind. The additional breeching and breast 

 girth attached to rings upon the sides of the belly-cloth, will be found to 

 contribute much to the comfort as well as the security of the animal. 

 The padded strap carried over the hind part of the neck, will prove 

 serviceable in preventing the breast girths from slipping down. 



CoNSTiTUTiOx\AL TREATMENT. — Tliis must bc rcgulatcd by 

 the fever present, and by the age, strength, and condition of 

 our patient. We should lose no time in administering pur- 

 gative medicine ; because, during rest, it will take probably 

 thirty hours before it comes into operation. As for bleeding 

 and other remedies, they must be suggested by the necessi- 

 ties of the case. 



A PROPOSED Mode of Treatment, — Mr. Thos. Turner, 

 V.S., Croydon, has a plan for treating the more formidable 

 cases of open joint, which I have put to the test, and can 

 recommend to the notice of my readers. 



The particulars of Mr. Turner^s method are contained in 

 a paper read to the Veterinary Society, in 1829, and since 

 published in " The Veterinarian,^^ from which I shall ex- 

 tract them : 



In cases of puncture, and wounds of similar description, into the joint, 

 Mr. Turner is satisfied with the efficacy of the actual cautery; but in cases 

 in which there is an opening into the joint of large dimensions, and, at the 

 same time, a large external wound, he abandons the cautery for his own 

 mode of treatment. He rests his prospects of success on being called 

 "within a reasonable time after the accident, and before injections of any 

 kind have been forced into the joint." — " Having washed the external 

 wound of the knee with a sponge and lukewarm water, a silver probe 



