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the horse ? Not, I am afraid, with any certainty or efifect. 

 The stomach of the horse has been known to relieve itself 

 in this way ; but then its contents have been thrown into 

 the chambers of the nose as well as mouth, and so endan- 

 gered life by suffocation. There is, however, yet another 

 mode of attempting to accomplish the same end, and that 

 is, by endeavouring to pass a hollow elastic tube down the 

 oesophagus, into the stomach, and through it, by means of 

 the stomach-pump, injecting tepid water. The best medi- 

 cine to administer seems to be aloes in solution. The 

 decoct, aloes, in combination with aether, is a good formula 

 providing it be given in such a full dose as will not fail, should 

 time be allowed it, to produce a cathartic effect. The state 

 of the brain may render it advisable to draw blood ; while 

 we shall assist the bowels in unloading themselves by the 

 administration of copious and stimulating clysters. 



A case is given in ' The Veterinarian^^ vol. xxi, wherein 

 the fumes of sether were inhaled with seeming benefit. In 

 the absence of any apparatus for the purpose, a linen bag 

 was procured with a slip-knot around its aperture, by which 

 it might be closely fitted to the muzzle ; and in this was 

 placed a large sponge, within a wooden bowl, upon which 

 sether was poured in sufficient quantity to saturate it. It 

 was precisely ten o^ clock when the animals head was en- 

 veloped around the muzzle in the sether bag ; at a quarter 

 past ten, both motion and sensibility had become momentarily 

 annihilated : the animal fell at once upon all four legs, and 

 sunk to the ground (to appearance) a lifeless mass. The 

 sether was administered four times afterwards, and the 

 animal in the end recovered. 



TYMPANITIC STOMACH. 



This is a disease in which the stomach or intestines, or 

 both, become highly distended with air ; or, at least, in 

 which gas, in addition to any alimentary matters they may 

 contain, is the principal cause of the distension. In cows, 

 this inflated condition of the rumen or paunch it is which con- 



