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The dock should not, for the first three or four days, bo 

 brought higher than the back. Dangerous irritation and in- 

 flammation would probably otbervvise be produced. It may, 

 after that, be gradually raised to an elevation of forty-five 

 degrees. The horse should be taken out of the pulleys, and 

 gently exercised once or twice every day; but the pulleys 

 cannot finally be dispensed with until a fortnight after the 

 wounds have healed, because the process of contraction, or the 

 approach of the divided parts, goes on for some time afier the 

 skin is perfect over the incisions, and the tail would thus sink 

 below the desired elevation. The French method is simpler 

 and less barbarous than ours, allowin< 

 the horse to lie down or move about at ^^^^&M 

 his pleasure. 

 Where this ope- 

 ration is to be 

 performed, it 

 might be adopted 

 with advantage 

 as shown in the 

 engraving an- 



If the tail has the french method. 



not been unnecessarily extended by enormous weights, no bad 

 consequences will usually follow ; but if considerable inflamma- 

 tion should ensue, the tail must be taken from the pulley, and 

 carefully fomented with simple warm water, and a dose of 

 physic given Locked-jaw has, in some rare instances, fol- 

 lowed, under which tne horse generally perishes. The best 

 means of cure in the early state of this disease, is to amputate 



