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it, moreover, is highly objectionable to introduce the saliva of one animal 

 into the mouth of another, as disease may be thus conveyed from horse 

 to horse also, it being impossible to provide a new glove with every 

 fresh patient, the protection is not universally adopted. 



The medicine being delivered, the hand is quickly withdrawn, and the 

 jaws of the animal are clapped together. The nose is then rubbed some- 

 what roughly, for — the upper Up being the organ of prehension, as well 

 as the seat of feeling, in the horse — this part is excited with the design 

 of preventing the quadruped from dwelling too intently on the unpleasant 

 nature of the substance which has just been forced into its mouth. 



A BALL BEING ADMlinSTERED ACCORDlNa TO MR. GOWINQ'S DIRECTIOIf. 



Mr. Gowing, the excellent veterinary surgeon, of Camden Town, has, 

 with his usual ingenuity, endeavored to remove those objections to which 

 the previous manner of delivering a ball is obviously liable. This gen- 

 tleman grasps the tongue rather higher up than is customary; and, 

 having done so, does not retract the member, but fixes the hand upon 

 the gums which cover the upper margin of the lower jaw. The point 

 of the tongue protrudes between the thumb and fingers, and it is then 

 plain that the anunal cannot close the mouth without biting upon its 

 own flesh. 



Yet candor obliges the author to state that he does not view this 

 method of graspmg the tongue as an improvement on the old practice. 

 The tongue, not being drawn out of the mouth, is not so decidedly fixed 



