INFLAMMATION OF THE JUGULAR VEIN. 53 



may devise some remedy ; but if seated near the en- 

 trance into the stomach, little hopes can be entertained of 

 a cure. 



Horses eating too greedily sometimes swallow their food 

 in too large masses, and before it is properly masticated, 

 which has in many instances lodged in the gullet, producing 

 alarming symptoms of suffocation. 



Kemedies. — The first thing to be tried is to force the ball 

 of food which obstructs the passage downwards, by the aid 

 of the elastic tube used for the hove in cattle. Sometimes 

 it cannot be dislodged even by means of this instrument. 

 In that case the only other remedy is to cut open the gullet 

 to prevent suffocation. But this operation need not be 

 described, as it can only be successfully performed by a 

 veterinary surgeon. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE JUGULAJl YEIK 



In the horse the jugulars are single on both sides of the 

 neck, while in horned cattle they are double. Inflammation 

 is sometimes induced in them after the operation of bleeding, 

 directions for which we shall give hereafter. 



After bleeding has been performed, the practice is to 

 bring the cut edges of the vein together, and to keep them 

 in contact by inserting a pin through the skin above it, and 

 twisting tow pretty tightly round it, so as to keep it from 

 being removed. In a couple of days the wound will have 

 completely healed in most cases. 



Causes. — A variety of causes may, however, operate to 

 induce inflammation of the vein. Among these may be 

 enumerated striking too hard on the lancet with the fleam, 

 (an instrument used in bleeding,) or using a blunt or rusty 

 lancet. In other cases, by pulling the skin too far from the 

 neck while drawing the wound together, and thus allowing 



