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 tiowels; red water, or inflammation of the kidneys, 

 &c. Blood may be drawn from any part of the 

 body ; but in common cases it is usually drawn fioni 

 the great neck veins that run up, one on each side, in 

 the hollow between the windpipe and the flesh of the 

 neck. Bleeding is not a diflicult operation v.hea 

 once learned, and is commonly practised by a fleam^ 

 which, being held just on the vein, is struck with a 

 stick gufliciently forcible to penetrate the vein, but 

 not to pass through it. Every practitioner should, 

 however, accustom himself to bleed with a lancet. 

 It is the most easy method, and infinitely the safest; 

 for inflammation in the vein will often follow from 

 bleeding, by even the nicest hand, whereas it never 

 occurs by the use of the lancet. Spring fleams are 

 used by some, but they seldom strike with suflicient 

 force. Mr. Long, of Holborn, has, however, lately 

 invented one that succeeds in most instances. Gen- 

 tlemen should make their grooms bleed with these, 

 from their perfect safety. The most proper part 

 to be opened is about a hand's breadth from the 

 jaw. If a ligature round the neck is used to raise the 

 vein, it should not be tied too tight ; but it may, in 

 most instances, be avoided, by pressing one of the 

 fingers of the hand holding the fleam on the vein, 

 which will then rise. It is prudent to cover the eye 

 ©f the side the blood is to be drawn from, as the 

 flourish of the blood-stick, when a fleam is used, may- 

 make the horse start, and thus a wrong part be struck, 

 or the operation frustrated. The pin should never 

 be suffered to remain more than twenty-four hours, or 

 the wound often festers. 



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