SECURING OF SOLIPEDS, 9 
feet are fixed with hobbles to a metallic chain (c) resting on the 
ground, in the axis of the apparatus, and stretched byacrank. The 
anterior legs may be attached to the side bars, the posterior to the 
Fig. 6.—Vinsot’s apparatus. 
posterior transverse bar by the means of the crank. For castration 
standing, the left hind leg is carried backwards, the operator bending 
down under theleft flank. Setons, opening of abscesses, dental opera- 
tions, firing on small surfaces, thinning of the horn, several opera- 
tions upon the foot, and their dressings are easily performed with 
this apparatus. (See Recueil de Médecine Vétérinaire, 1892, page 72.) 
De St. Maurine, an army veterinarian, is the inventor of a wooden 
moving stock, of easy construction, and less costly, with which an 
animal can be secured standing, or lying down, as in the Daviau 
bed. 
There are many other means of restraint—the list is very long. 
The simplest, however, are the best. The animal is brought to the 
place where it is to be operated upon, its head is covered-with a cap ; 
atwitch is used to distract its attention; a fore or a hind leg is 
raised ; if all this fails, the animal is to be secured in the recumbent 
position. f 
Restraint WHILE Lyinc Down. 
CASTING WITH HOBBLES. 
When the operation is to last some time, is painful, or demands an 
_immobility as complete as possible, the animal is thrown down. 
In the country, this is done ordinarily upon a straw bed suffi- 
