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fastened to the canes, by passing twine through 

 holes bored in them, and adding at each end two or 

 three bights of twine, for the puipose of catching 

 hold of any obstacle, thus making the instrument 

 almost exactly like a surgeon's })robang. The 

 sponge is preferable to the twine, as it will iiiot be 

 so liable to injure the animal's throat by its hard- 

 ness, will adapt itself more readily to the form of 

 the obstacle, and may be more firmly fixed to the 

 caaes. 



27. Snores. 



There sometimes takes place within the nostrils a 



jathering of thick clotted matter, which, when it 



[comes to any considerable height, very much ob- 



Lstructs respiration, and produces a sni\'elling noise 



I when the air passes through the nostrils. This 



[affection is called the snoi-es, or ,'^mvels, an.d is al- 



[most peculiar to cattle. It is sometimes mistaken 



[for a disorder of the throat, where it is imagined 



[there is some obstruction : but when this rattling 



[noise is found to attend the breathing of cattle, it 



[may generally be discovered v/hether or not it be 



the disease in question, by a careful inspection of 



[the nostrils. The swelling thus produced in the 



nostrils generally goes on to suppuration, and when 



It breaks the animal is relieved. The object of our 



[treatment must therefore be to hr.sten the suppura- 



[tion, by the application of warm stimulating fo- 



Imentations or liniments. A very common applica- 



[tion, in these cases, is the oil of bays injected up 



into the nostrils ; but perhaps the steam of warm 



?:vitev would answer evevj good purpose, and might 



fbe easily applied, by putting a warm bran mash into 



a canvas bag, and tying it to the animal's head ; and 



this may be repeated till tiie imposthume breaks. The 



animal should, in the mean time, be kept in a well 



sheltered liouse, an_d should be fed on nourishing diet. 



