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and drefs him not for fome Days, but they bleed 

 him the very next, and anoint his whole Leg with 

 the Duke's Ointment, defcribed in the Second Part\ 

 and continue it every Day for eight Days •, the 

 Horfe, during that Time, may be walked up and 

 down in one's hand, and the Pattern will fall into 

 its place, fo foon as ever the Wound is healed up : 

 This Operation is more difficult than the former, 

 andfucceeds well enough with Horfes which have 

 their Pattern caft very far forwards, and as it were 

 quite out of its place* which maketh the Sinew fo 

 itretched, that it is quite raifed from the Fore- 

 Thigh, and very rnuch advanced, yet it is done 

 without trouble or hazard *, but if a Horfe be but in 

 a ftrak Line from his Knee to the Coronet, and that 

 the Sinew, we have been difcourfing of, be not 

 much raifed from the Bone, and exeeffively ftretch- 

 ed, it may in that cafe do prejudice, as I faw it done 

 to a Horfe, which had one of his Legs, from the 

 Knee to the Coronet, only in a ftrait Line, and in 

 the other the Pattern was caft quite forwards ^ the 

 Leg in which the Pattern- joint was quite caft for- 

 wards, the Operation fucceeded admirably well 

 with it, for the Sinew was very much detached and 

 elevate •, but for his Leg, which was only in a ftrait 

 Line from his Knee to his Coronet, the Sinew was 

 not altogether raifed from the Thigh, and fo the 

 Horfe was two Months recovering. 



Now People run not that hazard in making the 

 other Operation, which is performed four Fingers 

 breadth below the Fore-Thigh Vein, for it can ne- 

 ver do any prejudice, although the Sinew be but 

 very little raifed and advanced •, therefore except a 

 Horfe have his Pattern-joint quite caft forwards, I 

 would not advife you to cut the Sinew a little above 

 the Knee. This is enough upon this SubjecT:. 



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