MEANS OF RESTRAINT 



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attitudes, but the patient is liable to injure himself while struggling, and 

 for this reason the travis has to a great extent fallen into desuetude. 



The Side-line is a useful and humane appliance, having few objections, 

 although, like all other methods of securing a horse, it is not wholly free 

 from danger, either to the animal or attendants. 



A single and a double side-line are recognized among those in the habit 

 of operating upon animals. The former consists only of a long rope passed 

 round the neck and fastened in form of a collar, the free end being carried 

 between the hind-limbs and into the hollow of the heel, whence it is 

 brought round to the front, and looped or fastened by a " half hitch " to 

 the collar portion again. 



Fig. 499. Hobbles 



Fig. 498. Side-line 



Fig. 500. Cross Hobbles 



The hind-leg can in this way be brought forward, and the horse pre- 

 vented from kicking on that side. 



The double side-line is employed in the same way on both limbs, but 

 in addition it is also used to cast and firmly secure an animal on the ground. 

 A common wagon rope is all that is necessary, but very much more con- 

 venient lines are now supplied by veterinary instrument makers. They 

 are provided with eyes through which the rope ends are made to pass, with 

 a minimum risk of either rubbing the skin or drawing the line too tight 

 (fig. 498. See also Plate XLIII). 



HobbleSc- This term may be employed to describe the apparatus used 

 by veterinary surgeons for casting and securing horses on the ground. It 

 consists of stout leather straps with steel eyes and buckles, and a specially 

 made rope terminating in a few feet of chain, where the principal strength 

 is required (figs. 499 and 500). The subject may be cast on either side or 



