182 Kssai/ on Sheep, — Appendix. 



bleeding in the lower part of the cheek, at the 

 spot where the root of the fourth tooth is plac- 

 ed, which is the thickest part of the cheek, 

 and is marked on the external surface of 

 the bone of the upper jaw by a tubercle suf- 

 ficiently prominent to be very sensible to the 

 finger when the skin of the cheek is touched. 

 This tubercle is a certain index to the angular 

 vein which is placed below; and this vein ex- 

 tends from the under border of the jaw beneath 

 near its angle, to below the tubercle, which is 

 seated at the root of the fourth cheek tooth; 

 farther the vein bends and extends to the cavity 

 of the eye-brow. The shepherd takes the 

 sheep between his legs; his left hand, more 

 advanced than his right, which he places under 

 the head, and grasps the under jav/ near to the 

 hinder extremity, in order to press the angular 

 vein, which passes in that place, to make it 

 swell; he touches the right cheek at the spot 

 nearly equidistant from the eye and the mouth, 

 and there linds the tubercle which is to guide 

 him, and also feels the angular vein swelled 

 below this tubercle; he then makes the inci- 

 sion from below upward, half an inch in length 

 below the middle of the projection which 

 verves to guide him. 



