S2 ROARING IN HORSES. 



or gauze rendered aseptic with iodoform, 

 and an antiseptic solution. 



The animal being anesthetised * is placed 

 on its back and kept in that position by 

 means of a bar held by two or four assistants. 

 The head being well extended on the neck, 

 the region of the throat is shaved over a 

 surface limited in front by the hyoid, behind 

 by the fourth ring of the trachea, laterally by 

 the branches of the inferior maxillary and 

 the tendon of the sterno-maxillary muscles. 

 The shaved skin is washed with warm water 



* As an anesthetic agent I at first persistently Hsed 

 chloral by intravenous injections (jugular) of one-third 

 or one-sixth strength, but this is subject to very serious 

 accidents. It is much better to use ether, chloral in 

 clysters associated with hypodermic injections of hydro- 

 chlorate of morphia, or chloroform, the recent researches 

 of Moller and Guinard having proved that chloroform 

 is not more dangerous to the horse than to man. 



