308 A STAR IN THE FOREHEAD. 



How to form an artificial Star. 



mains of most diseases. It must be observed, 

 that a horse should never be let blood, or purged, 

 until the rowel digests a good matter. 



CHAP. LXV. 



A STAR IN THE FOREHEAP. 



An artificial star may be formed in a horse's 

 forehead in the following manner : — Make two 

 holes through the skin, two inches distant from 

 each other, and two more holes at the same dis- 

 tance, straight across. The holes must be of such 

 a size as will admit of an ivory or bone skewer 

 being introduced into them ; which must be worked 

 about until the skin be properly divided from the 

 horse's skull, in the same manner as a rowel : the 

 division must extend round to all the four holes. 

 Next, let two bits of short wire be put into the 

 two^ holes across each other, so as to admit of 

 the four ends of the wires extending half an inch 



