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thirty to sixty minutes is about the time it now requires 

 to treat such cases. 



Tapping the stomach by means of an extra long tro- 

 car and canula was tried by Dr. Joseph Hughes some 

 15 or 18 years ago, but was discarded as being dan- 

 gerous and inefficient. 



The writer had a stomach tube made to order in Eng- 

 land twenty-one years ago but being made of the same 

 material and similar to, the old light-colored, linen cathe- 

 ter it was stiff and awkward to pass into the stomach, 

 and was discarded as being impractical. It remained for 

 Dr. D. O. Knisely to perfect and popularize stomach 

 lavage in the horse by means of the rubber stomach tube 

 and the injection pump. As a full explanation of its 

 value and uses may be found elsewhere in this little 

 volume, it is not necessary to go into a discussion of it 

 here. 



The writer fully concurs with those who place a high 

 value upon the stomach tube in gastric flatulence, but 

 does not use it in his practice except on rare occasions 

 on account of its being rather bulky to carry, its use 

 rather a *'mussy" operation, occasionally producing quite 

 a hemorrhage from the turbinated bones which, though 

 of no consequence, frequently alarms the owner and be- 

 cause its use is commonly followed by a severe cough. 



Drenches are often impossible of administration in 

 gastric flatulence, due to the eructation of gas forcing the 

 medicine up and out again. They are dangerous because 

 of the frequency with which they are forced up to the 

 fauces, and on account of the partial stupor and distress 



