88 THE VETERINARY SCIENCE. 



PARALYSIS OF THE GULLET OR PHARYNX. 



This is a very serious disease, for the animal cannot swallow 

 neither food or water, but fortunately it is not often met with in the 

 horse. 



Causes. — It is g-enerally cause' by some injury to the throat. 



Symptoms. — The animal will take food into his mouth, chew 

 it and prepare it for swallowing, and then spit it out, not making 

 any effort to swallow; he will try to drink, but cannot make any 

 effort to swallow it. If you examine the throat you cannot see 

 anything wrong ; no swelling, and it does not seem the least bit 

 sore ; the horse seems eager to eat and drink, but cannot ; he falls 

 off greatly in condition, gets very weak and will soon die from 

 astrvation. 



Treatment. — -if he is a very valuable animal and worth going 

 to the expense, treat him with a stomach pump by taking 

 the juice got by boiling hay and making gruels made out of 

 chopped oats, new milk and eggs and pumping it down into the 

 stomach ; in this way he is kept alive until the muscles of the 

 gullet have regained their strength of swallowing. In giving the 

 gruels put teaspoonful of nux vomica in it three times a day. 

 This is a nerve stimulant, and will help the muscles to regain their 

 strength ; also hand rub the throat well around the gullet and 

 apply white liniment five or six times a day until the animal 

 regains the power of swallowing. 



CHOKING WITH OATS. 



This is generally found in old horses that are very greedy 

 feeders and not used to getting oats. 



Causes. — Are generally where a horse has been out at pasture 

 and brought in and given a feed of oats and he goes at it ao 

 greedy he fills his mouth and tries to swallow it without chewing 

 it properly. 



Symptoms. — The horse is noticed not to be eating his oats, 

 and if you examine there is very little of the oats gone out of the 

 box and the horse is slobbering at the mouth and coughing, and if 

 you watch him for a few minutes he will be noticed to gag and 

 and draw the muscles of the neck stiff and bend the neck down as 

 if he was trying to force it up out of his throat, then he will take a 

 violent fit of coughing for a few minutes, and in some cases he 

 will throw out a frothy substance probably mixed with a few oats. 

 He will keep on doing this until he gets relief 



