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Causes. — It is usually caused by some foreign substance lodging ther& 

 or by extension to the pharynx of inflammation from the larynx and 

 nasal chambers. It is usually associated with pharyngitis and catarrh, 

 strangles, quinsy, etc. 



How to know it. — Painful swallowing, and sometimes a total inability 

 to SMullow is seen ; the water returns by the nose while drinking, and 

 the food is quiddod. More or less enlargement of the throat and glands 

 on the outside, tenderness upon pressure, and the neck straightened and 

 me head extended, will be the symptoms usually noticed. 



What to do. — If any foreign substance is suspected, examine the throat 

 and remove anything that may be found. Apply a counter irritant in the 

 form of the recipe No. 41. Give internally, mixture No. 21. Feed on 

 soft feed, such as scalded oats, boiled barley, bran mashes, etc. If it 

 continues longer than a week, give oat meal gruel injections — two quarts 

 every four or five hours. Cook the gruel the same as for the table. 



VT. Choking. 

 Causes. — Horses very seldom get choked ; but in some instances they 

 bolt their food, especially when fed on dry ground feed, and swallow it 

 before it is properly moistened with saliva, 

 and it accumulates in the gullet sometimes as 

 large as your double fist, usually about six or 

 eight inches from the throat. It often gives 

 rise to a great amount of flatulence. Some- 

 times it leaves a sac in the gullet, from the 

 distension of the fibres of its walls ; the sac is 

 called dilatation of the onsophagus. 



What to do. — Give the horse a couple of 

 swallows of raw lindseed oil, and manipulate 

 the lump, and try and pass it on a little at a 

 time, till it is all worked down; if this proves 

 ineffectual, the probang must be used, but 

 CHOKING. great care and caution are necessary not to keep 



A horse trying to raise the food stuck •«- •„ i. l j i. i i -i ii i ii 



in the throat from a stricture in tlie it m tOOlOUg, aud nOt tO pUSh it thrOUgh thc 



walls of the gullet. A horse cannot breathe 

 with the probang in his thi'oat, therefore it is dangerous to leave it in 

 longer than one minute at a time. If the obstruction is near enough to 

 the throat, so it can be reached with the hand, run j^jur arm down and 

 remove it. As a last resort, when all other means have been exhausted, 

 J-- ^ cut down upon the substance and 



_^^^^ remove it. Make the opening 



TWO FORMS OF PROBANG '° ^^^^ '.^"^ ^^«^ ^'^«"^?h ^^ g^^ 



T,, . .,^ . , a hand in, but make the hole in 



The probang with a piece of sponsre on the end is far the 



''est. the gullet as small as possible, 



just large enough to get one finger in, and break down the obstruction. 



