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directly over or under the part to be operated upon so as to 

 produce an immediate local effect. Medicinally, injections are 

 usually made at the point of the shoulder or in the breast or 

 neck, as at these points the skin is very flexible and can be 

 easily taken up. Inter-venous injections, (those directly into the 

 circulation), are also sometimes resorted to, for the purpose of 

 obtaining a more immediate effect. 



Negotiate. [Eq.] To handle ; to manage ; to take. In 

 equestrianism, to negotiate a leap hold the bridle-hand loose, 

 grasp the horse firmly with the legs and thighs, the toes being 

 up and outward, the back inward, and the neck steady. As 

 the horse rises meet his crest with the body, being careful not 

 to bear on the bridle which might pull him backward. The 

 instant his forequarters descend, and his hindquarters ascend, 

 keep time with him in an appropriate, but opposite motion and 

 throw the body sufficiently backward to be found firm in the 

 seat at the conclusion of the leap. Success depends upon the 

 perfect coolness of the rider, leaving everything to the discre- 

 tion of the horse, freedom from all support of the bridle or 

 stirrups, on the firm grasp of the legs and thighs, the instan- 

 taneoii>s performance of the alternate motions forward and 

 backward, and the preservation of a perfect equilibrium. 



Negotiate a Race. To accomplish or perform a race. 



We have been over one liuiulred years producing but a single trotter 

 that can negotiate a mile in 2:U4.— Dr. George H. Bailey, December, 

 1893, in American Horse Breeder. 



Nerving" ; Neurotomy. The operation of nerving a 

 horse for navicular disease, and frequently for ringbone. It is 

 the act of dividing the planter nerve above or below the ankle 

 — called high or low operation, as the case may be — and is only 

 practiced as a last resort in what are regarded as incurable 

 cases. A horse upon which the operation of nerving has been 

 performed, has been declared as legally unsound. 



NeAVinarket. Once the racing center of Great Britain, 

 if not of the world. On the border of the counties of Cam- 

 bridgeshire and Suffolk, England, twelve miles from the old 

 university town of Cambridge. Racing was established here 

 by James I., in 1605, who erected a hunting seat called the 

 '• King's House." The races, discontinued on the ascension of 

 Charles L, and the civil war, were revived on the advent of 

 Charles IL, who was a munificent patron of the turf. He built 

 a stand-house here, for the sake of the diversion, and re-estab- 

 lished the races about 1667. During the races on March 22, 

 1683, Newmarket was nearly destroyed by an accidental fire, 

 which occasioned the hasty departure of the company then 



