acting with superior force, will elevate the tail. 

 Sliould the arteries bleed profusely, sear them 

 with a hot iron, and anoint the sore every day 

 with some emolient ointment, till it is well. 



If nicking is thought necessary, the horse must 

 be cast as for docking ; the apparatus being 

 ready, which should be ^ phlegm knife, a small 

 pair of pincers, an iron spatula, and a cup of warm 

 spirits : then with your knife, make an incision 

 upon the cord of the tail which lies on each side 

 of the bone, one inch and a half long, four inches 

 from the body ; the cord appearing, take hold of 

 it with your pincers and run the spatula under it, 

 then cut the cord at the upper part of the incision 

 ne^t the body, and do the same by the other cord. 

 Then at two inches from your former incision, 

 towards the end of the tail, cut down upon the 

 cords as before, and take away four inches of 

 each cord, or if it is thought necessary, the whole 

 of the cord may be taken away in the same man- 

 ner. Now apply your spirit,- and bind up the 

 sore with a linen bandage ; unbind the horse 

 and put him into a very narrow stable, fix a pul- 

 ley over his back, put a line through and tie one 

 end to the horse's tail, with a sufficient weight on 

 the other end, to keep the tail upright ; wet it 

 daily with spirit, and apply some digestive, such 

 as basilicon, and in ten or fifteen days you may 

 expect a cure. 



OBSERVATIONS ON PRESERVING 



HEALTH. 



Health, is that *-" of the animal body; in 

 which ail the functions relative thereto, are per- 

 formed with ease and agility ; the food received, 

 is duly assimilated to the nourishment of the 

 body, tlie fluids have a free, and equable round of 



