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is operated upon, the patient must be returned to its feet 

 and then replaced on the table on the opposite side. This 

 is an objection only in as much as it requires slightly more 

 time than to simply roll the horse over on the floor. This 

 objection is, however, a trivial one. 



The Manipulation of the Horse Operating Table seems 



Fig. 21. 



Operating Table. Horse Ready to be Turned Down ; Assistants in 



Their Proper Stations. 



very simple so far as its general principles are concerned. 

 It consists of belting the body to the table while in the per- 

 pendicular position, strapping the legs to the hopples and 

 then turning the table down with the crank. These are, 

 however, "easier said than done." The securing of a horse 

 on a table, like all of the other methods of restraint, can only 

 be satisfactorily done when certain essential rules are care- 



