DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 



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What to do. — If it is a very urgent case, plunge the trochar and can- 

 nula into the region of greatest distension on the left side, at a'ooint 

 midway between the spines of the loins, last rib and point of the hip, 

 pointing the trochar in and downward, and letting it pass in obliquely 



WRONG POSITION OF THE ANIMAL FOR USING THROAT TUBE TO RELIEVE 



IT OF GAS. 

 The throat tube (c) comes with Its end piece (d) in the food gruet (6) and clogs the tube, (a) Gas 



over stomach contents. (6) Contents of stomach, (c) throat tube, (d) Button dipping into 



the contents of the stomach. 



to avoid the kidney. When food 

 gets over the end of the tube (can- 

 nula), pass in a piece of whalebone 

 and push it off. If the measures 

 above directed are not practicable, 

 and a probang is handy, insert the 

 gag oi the balling iron in the mouth, 

 and with one man to steady the head, 

 pass in the proI)ang, which will evacu- 

 ate the gas from the stomach. After 

 the acute symptoms are over, give a 

 brisk purgative. No. 8 will be found 

 effectual. Feed light for several days 



m. Impaction of the Rumen, or Maw-Bound. 



After an unusually full meal, the grain often becomes impacted in the 

 animal's stomach, causing its temporary paralysis, the whole mass lying 

 there like so much soggy stuff in a leather bag. Great distress necessa- 

 rily follows, which is aggravated when fermentation sets in, death often 

 resulting from suffocation, or in a more protracted case from nervous 

 prostration and blood poisoning. 



DIAGRAM, SHOWING WHERE TO TAP THB 

 RUMEN FOR IIOVEN. 



Imsert trochar at point where the lines cross. 



