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horses to this treatment in small barns and other unsuita- 

 ble places, and surrounded by a crowd of men, by being 

 careful I never had a serious accident occur. Of course, 

 in a field or open yard the danger would be immeasurably 

 diminished. Still I think it my duty to advise the greatest 



Fig. 43. — One of the tests frequently given by the writer in proving tuc eftect 



of the treatment upon a notably vicious case, when makjiag 



experiments before his class. 



care to prevent accident. By going slowly at first, and fol- 

 lowing up cautiously, there can seldom be an accident. 



Third Method of Subjection. 



It is well known that by hitting a horse at a certain 

 point back of the ear, it is easy to knock him down; 

 also if a horse were to throw himself over backward and 

 hit this part on a hub or stone, he would be liable to be 

 killed. At the front part of the atlas bone, or the first of 

 the cervical vertebra, where it articulates into the occipital 

 bone, or back part of the head, about an inch of the spinal 



