42 SPECIAL VETERINARY THERAPY 



used successfully, for a number of years, an injection 

 of one grain apomorphine, hypodermatically. The 

 horse is still retained in a clean stall free from feed, 

 and water is kept constantly before him. After the 

 injection of the apomorphine, five or six hours are 

 allowed to elapse before anything further is attempted. 

 Should the choke still be in evidence at the end of 

 this time (a very rare occurence) the surgeon can be- 

 gin to think of operating. Talk to your client and 

 prepare him for what you may have to do, but do not 

 do it yet. Allow another five or six or even ten or 

 twelve hours to pass with the horse kept in a clean 

 stall as before. The chances are that you will be 

 very pleased over your good judgment at the end of 

 of this time ; your client will be even more so. 



If you should be so unfortunate as to meet with a 

 case of real jabot, (that is what you undoubtedly 

 have when the foregoing procedure fails) your patient 

 is just as good a subject for the necessary operation, 

 if you have not allowed him to swallow any food 

 since he became choked, as he was when you first saw 

 him. You have used good, sound and expert judge- 

 ment and have not harmed your client nor his horse. 

 You have given them both every possible chance. 



Then operate according to the directions given by 

 Merrillat. 



Here I can promise the surgeon that his operations 

 for choke in horses will be few and far between if he 

 follows patiently the instructions outlined above. 



