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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 actually Ctçn the femur and its head 

 fractured in its cavity, andeventhe ofla ilia, but 

 never obferved 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 

 pcflible 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 

 make 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 ftrains they have 

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

 diforder ; it was never feen that a horfe was 

 lame from cutaneous difeafes, except fometimes 

 by a fixing of the farcy -, whicli comprennes the 

 mufcles and hinders their motion ; or by fome 

 abfeefs formed upon them. 



The common remedy for thefe dilbrders is to pafs 

 fêtons or rowels between the fkin and cutaneous 

 mufcles, made either of fimple cords or mixed 

 with hair -, or of ribbon, or leather -, they alfo 

 J)ut in ftraw and twigs of birch or other wood ; 



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