FIRST AID IN EMERGENCY 



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above described, and you will greatly help and im- 

 prove the horse's legs. At night when you have 

 bedded down, change the linen bandages for flannel 

 or woollen ones ; these, of course, are dry. Now you 

 may put them on very tightly and go well below the 

 fetlock joint, as shown in Fig. 53. Work up- 

 wards again as before, and fasten below the knee. 



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FIG. 52. — WEAK FETLOCK JOINTS. 



In Fig. 54 notice the turned-down corner below the 

 knee ; that is where and how you start the flannel 

 bandage ; it goes high and yet does not prevent the 

 free use of the knee. Always have your bandages 

 smoothly and firmly rolled as you see in the fore- 

 ground of this illustration. 



So much, then, for sickness. In such a simple 

 and elementary work as this I do not think more 



