56 ROARING IN HORSES. 



branch of the thyroid artery has been pressed 

 by an artery forceps, the bleeding is insignifi- 

 cant once the parts are sutured. 



Dressing. — After having removed the blood 

 clots from the larynx it is filled up with 

 layers of wadding, or plugs of wadding and 

 gauze, rendered aseptic by iodoform, pro- 

 vided with strings to prevent them being 

 swallowed. It is advisable to put in some 

 long, flattened plugs at once ; the inferior 

 edges of which should be traversed by the 

 muscular sutures. The edges of the external 

 wound are joined together by two sutures 

 superposed at a distance of about one-third of 

 an inch from one another, the first made in 

 the muscular tissue, the other in the skin. 

 For both these silk thread or ordinary thread 

 is used. The skin suture placed in front of 

 the canula ought to be very strong, in order 



