18 : VETERINARY SURGICAL THERAPEUTICS. 
soon as the animal tries to defend itself, the assistant at the head and 
the operator pull together.’ ‘‘ The animal slides, so to speak, on the 
body of the operator,” and falls without danger. The two hind legs 
are secured with the rest of the rope. 
The Russian method is analogous to that of Rohard. It con- 
sists in raising a hind leg and pulling the head and trunk in the 
direction in which the animal is to fall. Ifthe horse is to be laid on the 
right side, a stout rope is passed round its neck in a loop which has 
a ring, where it rests on the left elbow. Another rope, ora long 
leather strap, secured to the ring, is carried round the near hind leg 
from within outwards, then back to the ring, and is pulled upon 
backwards from the opposite side. (Fig. 16.) The operator, stand- 
ing on the side where. the animal is to fall,,pulls on the halter or 
bridle with one hand and on the rope with the other, and with mod- 
erate force compels the horse to liedown. , 
For donkeys and very small horses the following method is very 
convenient: Take a side line, fix it by one of its ends to a front 
coronet, fasten it to that of the opposite foreleg. With a second side 
line fix both hind legs in the same way. Pass the former side line 
backward between the hind legs, and the other forward between the 
fore legs. When the assistants at the head and at the tail pull on 
them the animal falls. Twist the ropes tightly together, have them 
held by assistants. 
With the Daviau fable, aseptic operations can be performed, and its 
use is not accompanied with fractures and muscular lacerations so 
frequent with the other means used for restraint in a recumbent 
position. It consists of'a solid wooden table, to which is fastened 
as a covering a thick mattress, and which, by a special mechanism, 
moves from a vertical to a horizontal position. While the table is 
vertical, the animal, with, his head covered with a hood, is brought 
near it, and immobilized with straps and hobbled (fig. 18), all 
the cords being secured to. wooden pins on thé under side of the 
table. When the-horse is secured, the crank of the mechanism is put 
in motion and the table brought to the horizontal position and the 
height required for the operation. Generally, with this apparatus, 
animals react but little. When this apparatus was first:made, it 
was, necessary, in turning the animal over, to relieve it from its first 
position, and then to secure it in the same way. on the other side. 
With the improved table, which is mounted upon wheels and which 
can be firmly fastened to the ground, the horse can be turned over 
without changing the horizontal position of the table. 
With the Vinsot apparatus (fig. 6), the horse can also be turned 
over without difficulty. He is fixed as for standing operations, with 
the head secured to one of the upright posts, the sling and the chains 
