THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXI, 
No. 250. 
OCTOBER 1848. 
Third Series, 
No. 10. 
IMPROVED BLINDS AND CASTRATION HOPPLES. 
My dear Sir, Hounslow, August 18, 1848. 
A SHORT time since I saw what I consider to be an excellent 
plan for throwing and securing colts for castration : it is a very 
great improvement on the common cart-rope, and, I think, leaves 
scarcely any thing to be desired. I wished very much to prevail 
on the practitioner who uses these blinds and hopples to send an 
account of them to The Veterinarian, but I could not succeed. 
This gentleman has, however, allowed me to make any use of 
them I think proper ; and I therefore beg to send you some draw- 
ings, both of the blinds and hopples, as also an annexed descrip- 
tion of them : should you think it desirable to insert them in The 
Veterinarian, they are at your service. 
Believe me to be, dear Sir, 
Yours faithfully, 
J. W. Gloag, V.S. 11th Hussars. 
W. Percivall, Esq., 
Editor of The Veterinarian. 
The Blinds. 
The construction of this article is very useful. In unruly colts 
it may be put on as a halter, the blinds being completely thrown 
off from the eyes on the sides of the cheeks, and they may remain 
there until required for use, when the blinds can be pushed forward 
in a moment : and they may, in difficult cases, be applied when, 
perhaps, you could not get ordinary blinds on the animal. 
The Head Stall . — The upper part made with leather, and strap 
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