4 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
secured in various ways: 1st, fixedround the pasterns, it is carried 
up to the withers, round the thorax, back under the canon of the 
foot, raised, and pulled on horizontally ; 2d, fixed on the coronet: 
and the canon flexed on the forearm, it is rolled round both of these: 
and its extremity held by an assistant. 
Instead of the plate-longe, one may use the /footraiser. It is. 
made of a wide strap some 0.60 centimeters long, having a 
buckle at one of its ends and a number of holes at the other, thus. 
making firm the knee flexed on the forearm and rendering them im-- 
movable, so that the animal cannot strike with his foreleg. A long 
leather strap or a single rope may replace the foot-raiser. The one 
invented by Trasbot consists of a leather strap about 1 meter 20 cen-- 
timeters long, pierced with holes, having at one of its ends a flat. 
ting and on one side, at about 25 centimeters from the ring, a buckle. 
Thestrap running through the ring 
forms a loop fixed on the coronet ;- 
then is wound around the forearm, 
passing from the inner to the outer - 
surface, where it is secured by the: 
buckle (fig. 1). With the foot-raiser,. 
horses soon get tired of struggling,. 
and can be easily approached. 
To raise a hind leg, more strength 
and skill are necessary. The as-- 
sistant, placed on the side of the 
leg to be raised, passes his hand. 
from the back forwards on the in-. 
ner face of the canon; by a gradual. 
traction upon the leg he raises it. 
from the floor, then resting it on his. 
thigh holds it with both his hands: 
around the coronet. To hold the- 
foot, sometimes a rope tied to the: 
tail and passed under the flexed. 
coronet is used in preference. For 
the anterior legs,.a strap or the: 
. Fig, 1—Foot raiser (Trasbot.) plate-longe is used. The former, 
\ Placed around the neck, secured by- 
astraight knot, and carried backwards along the spine, is twisted. 
around the base of the tail, then rourid the coronet, when by a back-- 
wards traction the leg is raised. It is preferable, in using this last: 
mode (the plate-longe), to place a hobble round the coronet, and to. 
pass the rope through the ring of the hobble. 
It is also with the assistance of the plate-longe that one of the hind 
legs may be carried forward. Fixed to the canon or to the coronet 
