304 PURGATION. 



by a blackfmith, and was fent thither to be 

 cured. The vein was divided, and a confide- 

 rable wound made in the neck, which had jull 

 come to fuppuration ; the horfe, in the mean 

 time, being affefled in fo fingular a manner by 

 the accident, as entirely to lofe his appetite, 

 and the grooms were actually drenching him 

 with gruel. 



The moft proper part of the neck to w^hich 

 ■ to apply the lancet, is about a hand's breadth 

 from the head, and one inch below the branch- 

 ing, or joining of the vein, which runs from 

 the lower jaw, and which will appear full by 

 preffing the main branch ; the integuments 

 alfo are thinnefl thereabouts. In cafe, from 

 the folly of frequent blood-letting, the neck of 

 the horfe (hould be covered with fears, it is 

 then better to have recourfe elfewhere, and an 

 'operator fhould accuftom himfelf to bleed on 

 either fide indifferently. I have the authority 

 of Mr, Clarke, for adviiing that a ligature be 

 never made until (fuppofmg the horfe upon 

 his legs) the orifice be opened, and even then 

 it will frequently be needlefs, and as the pref- 

 fure of the finger wnll in general occafion the 

 blood to flow fufficiently free. I have feen 

 ligatures made fo exceifive hard by ignorant 

 fmiths, that the patients have been nearly fuf- 

 focated, and there are inftances enough of 

 horfes abfolutely falling down in an apop- 



le61ic 



