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A new 



method 

 recom- 

 mended. 



(y Gelding, Docking, ^i^i 



of removing it when the horfe is exercifed 

 or taken out to water. 



To remedy thefe inconveniences, and 

 perfed: this operation, a very ingenious 

 gentleman, Who had thoroughly confi- 

 dered it, has been fo kind as to favour 

 me with a draught, and defcription of a 

 machine he contrived for that purpofe-, 

 which has been practifed frequently with 

 the expedled fuccels, and indeed at firft 

 view appears in every refpefl calculated to 

 corre(5l all the defeds in the old one : as t 

 doubted not its reception being perfedlly 

 agreeable to the public, I have ordered a 

 plate to be engraved, which, with the 

 annexed defcription, will, I hope make 

 it very familiar and intelligible to every 

 capacity. 



Obferva- ^^ regard to the operation, it is worth 

 tions in notice, that the extremities of the ten- 

 regard to dons, which jut out in the operation, 

 ijie opera- j^gg^ not here be cut off, as is cuftoma- 

 ^^^"' rily done; the number of the incifions 

 muft be in proportion to the length of 

 the tail, but three in general are fuffi- 

 cient. The mod approved method of 

 drefling at firfl is with powdered rofin, 

 and Ipirit of wine, applying a foft dofTiI 

 pf lint or tow, dipped in the fame, be- 

 tween 



