No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 187 



In liere you will notice that the circulation as compared with that 

 is perhaps a little stronger; the veins and arteries are a little bit 

 larger, and the circulation in here is of course a little different on 

 account of the difference in the organs. There is a little thing I 

 wish to speak of right here. I wish to speak of bleeding or hemor- 

 rhage. It is quite often that the farmer meets with an accident 

 either in plowing or harrowing or some other work, and an artery 

 gets cut. 1 saw a case where a man struck his horse with a whip, 

 and the whip struck this artery and cut it open, and the horse of 

 course bled terribh'. And in another case only a few days ago a 

 horse run away and cut the artery right in here so that it bled 

 terribly. In this case, the owner of the horse called me up on the 

 'phone. He said, "You can't get here before the horse will die, 

 and he is a very valuable horse; can't you tell me something to do." 

 I said, "Yes." I told that man to take a little stick about as big 

 as a lead pencil or a little larger, about like that (indicating) and 

 put his hand around the leg until he came to the point where the 

 blood starts then take the stick and lay it over that point, and take 

 a little cotton cloth bandage and wind around it, aud he would stop 

 that bleeding simply and easily, which was done. 



I will tell you what they will do in most every case. They will 

 take a big string or small rope and twist it up until they nearly cut 

 the skin through, and in fact, I have seen cases where the skin has 

 been cut entirely through by this cord, and the blood kept coming 

 just the same. Now it is nature's privilege to put these arteries in 

 a little groove, and you may tie a string around there tight enough 

 to cut the skin clear through, and you won't stop the bleeding; but 

 take a cork and put it over that spot and you will stop it. You see 

 the idea is to get a little pressure onto this point. 



A Member: Mr. Chairman, just there, if you please, I would like 

 to inquire of the Doctor how we shall know the difference between 

 the veins and the arteries. 



DR. TOWER: I will say in reply, that you will notice here the 

 blue lines represent the veins, or the venous blood; the red lines 

 represent the blood, the purer blood which is going down this way 

 (indicating). You can tell by the color of the blood which one you 

 have got, whether it was from a vein or an artery. You would 

 scarcely get very little bleeding coming up here, (indicating) how- 

 ever, I would recommend that you use a stick long enough or a cork, 

 or whatever you have, to cover both ends, and then do not put on a 

 bandage tight enough to give the horse any pain, and this you will 

 find will work in almost any part of the body, and it is something 

 that you all know, that requires prompt attention. If a man has a 

 horse or a cow that has a sudden hemorrhage or bleeding, it requires 

 prompt attention. At one place I saw a man faint away just from 

 seeing the horse's leg which was cut. Of course there are men of 

 that kind, that can't help it. I don't blame them. You will notice 

 all the blood circulation that goes around the head. There are some 

 little ones, too, that are not shown on this model, so you can see 

 how liable they are to be injured. 



The SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, may I ask the Doctor through 

 you, to kindly tell us how to take the pulse of a h()rs(\ 



DR. TOWER: The pulse can be taken very easily. You have 

 the pulsing of the vein and artery both. Any place where you can 



