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If impossible at first to attach the cord about the pastern, it 

 should be made fast as low down on the metacarpus as possible. 

 While traction is applied upon this cord by an assistant, the 

 operator may pass a second cord beyond the first, and, as the foot 

 is being brought nearer by traction upon the first cord, the noose 

 of the second may -be pushed over the fetlock and engaged upon 



Fig. 108. Method of Securing the Lower Jaw by means 

 OF A Looped Cord. 

 the pastern. It is to be emphasized that in correcting a devia- 

 tion of a limb, whether anterior or posterior, the ultimate aim is 

 to get the noose upon the pastern. Until that can be accom- 

 plished, the correction of the deviation is uncertain. 



