156 avkry's own fakrter. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



SURGERY, 



" Is curing by manual operations, with or without 

 medicine." The setting and replacing broken bones is 

 seldom called into requisition in horse surgery, or veter- 

 inary practice, and it would be a very difficult task for 

 rae to lay down rules on this subject that would be ap- 

 plicable in all cases. Perhaps there would never any 

 two cases happen just alike, consequently each would 

 need different fixtures and the mode of treatment would 

 vary so much that it would be useless to the reader for 

 me to make the attempt, and especially if one had a 

 practical knowledge of the subject under consideration, 

 or if he had the mechanical ingenuity that is so neces- 

 sary for one to have before he should venture to perform 

 operations of this kind, it would be wholly unnecessary for 

 me to say more to him. Though I have performed many 

 operations that might with propriety be brought under 

 this head, I propose to speak of only a few. 



The Breach. — Accidents of this kind often happen 

 with colts where they are allowed to run in company 

 with horns, stakes, knots, and cruel masters. It renders 

 them almost valueless unless they are cured, which is not 

 a very difficult task to perform, for I have cured many 

 without ever witnessing a single failure. A breach, or 

 burst, is where the wall and membrane of the abdomen 

 gets broken through by some kick, blow, or other means, 

 lacerating or rupturing these parts to such an extent as 

 to allow the guts to protrude through, and lay next to 



