SECURING OF SOLIPEDs. II 
the legs are brought close together by backing, or by carrying the 
hind legs forward. The chain is put on the stretch by the steady 
pull of three or four assistants. At a given signal, a common action 
takes place, the legs are brought together, and the animal, feeling 
its threatened fall, bends its legs, while the traction on the trunk, the 
tail, and ‘the head bears down the mass of the body. When the 
horse is cast the head should immediately be stretched out lying 
down. . : 
The chain of the hobbles is secured by a fastener of any kind, or a 
padlock passed through one of the links. 
Fig. 8—Throwing process in use at the Berlin College, (Moller.) 
The apparatus of Bernadot and Butel (fig. 7), has proved advan- 
tageous in keeping the head and neck extended, and preventing the 
arching of the vertebral column and violent struggling. 
The process used at the surgical clinic of Berlin differs from the pre- 
ceding in the manner the plate-longe is placed; this has in its 
middle a wide loop passed under the shoulder of the leg opposite 
to the side on which the horse is to be thrown (fig. 8), the straw bed 
being covered besides with a wide leather mattress. 
When one has to deal with an irritable or very strong animal 
_which has been cast for operations on previous occasions, he must 
