. The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies : including horses, cattle, cows, sheep, swine, fowls, dogs, etc. .... is gently drawn out a little way by the 40 General Principles of Veterinary Medicine. left hand, and the ball passed rapidly along the roof of themouth, and dropped on the back of tlie tongue. The handis quickly withdrawn, the tongue returned to the mouth, thejaws closed and the head for a couple of minutes held slight-ly elevated, and the side of the neck watched to see the ballswallowed and pass down the throat. In performing this operation it is well to obser
. The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies : including horses, cattle, cows, sheep, swine, fowls, dogs, etc. .... is gently drawn out a little way by the 40 General Principles of Veterinary Medicine. left hand, and the ball passed rapidly along the roof of themouth, and dropped on the back of tlie tongue. The handis quickly withdrawn, the tongue returned to the mouth, thejaws closed and the head for a couple of minutes held slight-ly elevated, and the side of the neck watched to see the ballswallowed and pass down the throat. In performing this operation it is well to observe the fol-lowing rules:— 1. Take the horse out of his stall, and let him have ahalter on, held by an assistant. 2. Stand on the off side of the horses head, and be sureJ hold the tongue so that in any movement the horse may make, you have a support for the hand against the lowerjaw. 3. Do not pull on the tongue, and let your movements bequiet but rapid. With vicious horses, those with small and narrow mouths,and in certain diseases, as lockjaw and mad staggers, ballingirons have been devised, by which the mouth is kept open,. PIG. 3.—SIMPLE FOBM OP A BALLING lEOK. and the ball can be given with safety. The above is asimple form which can readily be made of iron by any black-smith, of size to suit. The ball is sometimes fastened loosely to the end of a smallstick, and thus carried to the back part of the tongue. Cfivng Medicines by the Mouth. 41 Vapors, Sprays, and Fumes are forms of medicines drawnin with the breath. They are easy of administration, and ofmuch wider use than most veterinarians take advantage them, the ancesthetics, chloroform and ether, take thefirst rank. A sponge in a loose net may be fastened over thehead of the animal, the mouth having previously been muz-zled, and the anaesthetic poured on the spoLge; or it may besimply held to the nose. In many diseases of the throat and windpipe, as catarrh,sore throat and strangles, steam, either pure, or
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