6 VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
ting of the surcingle, and tie them at the head on the nose band of 
the halter or of the cavesson (Keller). Put hobbles on the hind coro- 
nets, pass each of the ropes round the superior part of the corre- 
sponding forearm and tie them together over the withers. 
The ‘‘ Le Goff hobble” allows the immobilizing of either fore or 
hind quarter. In the former case, the apparatus, which has the 
shape ofa Y, is fixed to the two fore and one of the hind coronets. 
If one operates on the hind quarter, the two posterior coronets and 
one anterior are secured in the slip knots of the apparatus. 
Fig. 3.—Contention of the hind limbs. 
To limit the movements of the two legs on the same side of an 
animal, both can be secured with two of the branches of the Le Goff 
hobble, or with a rope or strap having a slip knot at each end. 
(Chelchowsky. ) 
The Aippo-lasso or lasso-breaker of Raabe and Lunel, a kind of 
strait-jacket for animals, is composed of a Dutch collar and a 
breeching which can be brought close together by two lateral straps, 
so as to diminish, at will, the base of sustentation of the animal 
(fig. 4). In pulling the straps tight, the possibility of the displace- 
ment of the extremities is limited, and even prevented, if the tighten-. 
ing is sufficient to threaten the animal with a fall. The advantages. 
of this apparatus are already well known, and nothing can be added. 
to what has already been said by Lecog, Rey, Bouley, and many 
others. It can bereplaced by an ordinary plate-longe or two ropes 
