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the head of the thigh-bone is diflocated, with 

 an intention confequently of reducing it. 



Let us fuppofe it was fo, (which I never yet 

 faw) I have adually feen the femur and its head 

 fradkured in its cavity, and even the ofla iUa, but 

 never obfcrved it to be diflocated, nor has any 

 one ever pretended to me to have feen it ; but 

 in this fuppofition, I fay, I do not believe it is 

 poflible to reduce it. 



To draw the thorn^ is to tie one end of a 

 rope to the fetlock of the difeafed limb, and 

 the other to a flexible tree, from which they 

 jnake the horfe pull by whipping him \ I 

 have feen fome who were but a little lame, 

 and after this torture, became more lame, and 

 remained fo all their lives. 



Error XIII. 



For the cure of drags and flirains they have 

 recourfe to the fkin as if it was the feat of the 

 dilbrder ; it was never {ttn that a horfe was 

 lame from cutaneous difeafes, except fometimes 

 by a fl:ring of the farcy -, which comprefl^es the 

 niufcles and hinders their motion j or by fome 

 abfcefs formed upon them. 



The common remedy for thefe diforders is to pafs 

 fetons or rowels between the flcin and cutaneous 

 mufcles, made either of Ample cords or mixed 

 with hair \ or of ribbon, or leather ; they alfo 

 put in fl:raw and twigs of birch or other wood ; 



there 



