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Secondly, you must place the sticks above the epididy- 

 mus (or courage balls as they are called by some horse- 

 men), the loss of which are injurious to his mettle; or 

 the cords by being strained in this manner so long, will 

 hang down, and the flesh heal to them so that it leaves 

 a blemish, and be a great while in getting well, or you 

 must cut them off a second time, which is attended with 

 more trouble and risk. Thirdly, and lastly, there is a 

 better way; that is to put on the clamps where you 

 choose, pare the cords off not too close, and sear them 

 well with a hot iron to prevent their bleeding too much; 

 then rub some of the liniment, for which a formula will 

 be given below, on the ends of the cords and surrounding 

 parts; then when you let the horse up, the cords are up 

 where they should be, and this liniment will set it run- 

 ning, and cause it to heal as fast as can be desirable, and 

 it will heal up smooth without leaving any blemish. 

 The incisions to be made for the purpose of taking out 

 the testicle, should always be made in a parallel line 

 with the seam on the outside that separates them, not 

 allowing the knife to come very near to it; and there is 

 but little risk in performing this operation. To make 

 the liniment, take equal parts of henbane plant and 

 balm of Gilead buds, boil these in water suflSciently to 

 obtain the strength of them, then strain and add another 

 part of hog's lard and bayberry, or candleberry tallow; 

 simmer these down together to a thickish liniment. 

 When you use it, warm and add a very little oil of fire 

 weed, with or without cutting it with alcohol; this will 

 prevent bleeding. 



