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excessive, and the struggles violent, bleeding will be best. 

 The administration of chloroform when the system is in great 

 commotion, and the life powers vigorous, would be attended 

 with considerable danger ; the animal might rupture a large 

 blood vessel or the diaphragm, either of which would result 

 in the death of the horse. My advice is (if the patient be 

 as I have described^ to unloose the hobbles, and allow him to 

 to rise, and while upon his feet, to abstract blood from the 

 neck until the pulse falters, after which allow him to again 

 go down, and during that complete relaxation of the system 

 which arises from fainting, the efforts to return the intestine 

 should be renewed. 



YI. — In elevating the hind quarters, avoid forcing the 

 animal all of a heap. 



YII. — Before returning the bowel, empty the rectum, and 

 give careftd attention to every little circumstance which will 

 prove favourable to the success of the operation. 



YIII. — While attempting the operation, maintain the hind 

 limbs of the patient flexed to the utmost extent possible ; but 

 if this cannot be done in consequence of the struggles of the 

 animal, free one limb from the hobbles, and by means of a 

 web or a soft rope, pull the limb aside, or forward, or back- 

 ward, as necessity may require ; by these means the operator 

 will procure all the space within the belly, and all the laxity 

 of its muscles which it is possible under the circumstances to 

 obtain. 



By one or other of the modes now described, I have in every 

 case of Inflammation arising from strangulated bowel which has 

 come under my care succeeded in affording relief to the patient. 



