Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . throat. It often givesrise to a great amount of flatulence. Some-times it leaves a sac in the gullet, from thedistension of the fibres of its walls ; the sac iscalled dilatation of the onsophagus. What to do.—Give the horse a couple ofswallows of raw lindseed oil, and manipulatethe lump, and try and pass it on a little at at
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . throat. It often givesrise to a great amount of flatulence. Some-times it leaves a sac in the gullet, from thedistension of the fibres of its walls ; the sac iscalled dilatation of the onsophagus. What to do.—Give the horse a couple ofswallows of raw lindseed oil, and manipulatethe lump, and try and pass it on a little at atime, till it is all worked down; if this provesineffectual, the probang must be used, butCHOKING. great care and caution are necessary not to keep A horse trying to raise the food stuck •«- •„ i. l j i. i i -i ii i ii in the throat from a stricture in tlie it m tOOlOUg, aud nOt tO pUSh it thrOUgh thc walls of the gullet. A horse cannot breathewith the probang in his thioat, therefore it is dangerous to leave it inlonger than one minute at a time. If the obstruction is near enough tothe throat, so it can be reached with the hand, run j^jur arm down andremove it. As a last resort, when all other means have been exhausted,J-- ^ cut down upon the substance and. _^^^^ remove it. Make the opening TWO FORMS OF PROBANG ° ^^^^ .^^ ^^«^ ^^«^?h ^^ g^^ T,, . .,^ . , a hand in, but make the hole in The probang with a piece of sponsre on the end is far the est. the gullet as small as possible, just large enough to get one finger in, and break down the obstruction. DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS OF THE ALIMENTARY CANAL. 4i; Cut carefully so as not to wound the jugular vein. Draw the edges of thegullet together with either catgut or silk, and dress it twice a day withlotion No. 39. Sew the skin with silk, and after dressing the wound withthe ahove lotion, saturate a wad of oakum with the lotion and tie it overthe wound. Keep the horse on very sloppy food, and very little of it.
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