The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . FIG. 10.—AN OX GAG. The advantage it has over the common gag is, that it istied by a rope to the mouth, and then, in virtue of its shape,it is a more complete guide to the probang than the instru-ment represented at Fig. 10. The latter is the commongag, to be held in the animals mouth by an assistant, whilstthe operator uses the FIG. 11.—AN ox GAG. As the first stomach of ruminants is very capacious andlies flat against the left side of the belly, an expedient has The Use of Trodiars. 53 been adopted of puncturing the st
The diseases of live stock and their most efficient remedies; . FIG. 10.—AN OX GAG. The advantage it has over the common gag is, that it istied by a rope to the mouth, and then, in virtue of its shape,it is a more complete guide to the probang than the instru-ment represented at Fig. 10. The latter is the commongag, to be held in the animals mouth by an assistant, whilstthe operator uses the FIG. 11.—AN ox GAG. As the first stomach of ruminants is very capacious andlies flat against the left side of the belly, an expedient has The Use of Trodiars. 53 been adopted of puncturing the stomach to evacuate it, orto introduce into it medicinal agents. The stomach is punc-tured by trochars, such as are represented by Figs. 12 and first has a cylindrical canula and stilet, the canula beingsomewhat less than a third of an inch in diameter, and threeand a-half inches in length. The one represented by Fig. 13is flattened, and the canula half-an-inch in its greatest width,and four and a-half inches in length.
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