METHODS OF SECURING. 



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or unknown, the search for the scar (unless the animal has been 

 previously turned on its back) is more difficult. It is not so 

 easy, too, to avoid injuring the large plexus of veins which are 

 to be found in the inguinal region. The only advantage which 

 can be claimed for it is that the risk of protrusion of intestine 

 is not so great when the operator is not using a general 

 anjesthetic. 



With the dorsal position, and this is by far the most con- 





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Fig. ?. 

 Rope with metal eyes, affixed for casting. 



venient, the patient is cast with a rope just as for ordinary 

 castration. With a manilla or cotton rope about fifty feet long 

 a loop or collar is made in the centre and passed round the 

 neck, the loose ends are passed between the fore legs, through 

 the hind ones, brought up around the heels and passed through 

 the rope collar, or through metal eyes previously inserted in the 

 strands of the rope (see Figs, i and 2). 



The rope, after leaving the heel, may or may not (at the fancy 



