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CHAPTER VIII. 

 MISCELLAXEOUS. 



1. Of Bleeding. 



1 His operution is frequently necessary in 

 the diseases of horses, and is performed either 

 with a lancet or phlenie, in the neck vein. 



The blood should always be preserved, that 

 the quantitjj drawn may be accurately known, 

 and that its quality may be ascertained. If 

 after it has coagulated, a vvhite, or rather a 

 light bulT-colonred jelly, be found on the sur- 

 face, an iril.ammatorv state of the body is indi- 

 ■catcd; but in order to render this criterion use- 

 ful, the blood must not be taken from too 

 small an orifice, nor should it be suffered to 

 run (low n the sides of the vessel wliich receives 

 It. 



Blood drawn from a health v horse verv soon 

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ci)agulatcs^ and appears like a uniformly red 





