who wish to have their stables healthy. The diseased animal should be 

 placed in a moderately warm, well ventilated, but not draughty, loose-box. 

 The diet should be at first laxative, consisting of such food as mashes, linseed 

 cake, gruel, roots, and grass. In mild cases a febrifuge draught may be given 

 three times a day. The following is a useful formula: take of liquor 

 ammonii acetatis four ounces, of nitric ether one ounce, of bicarbonate 

 of potassium half an ounce, of water to half a pint or a pint. 



Should severe throat symptoms supervene, it is necessaiy to allow the 

 horse to breathe the vapour of hot water. When symptoms of strangulation 

 show, themselves, it is sometimes necessary to make an opening into the 

 windpipe, and to insert an instrument through which the horse can breathe 

 air — the inflamed and thus obstructed orifice of the air channel, or glottis, 

 no longer allowing of the passage of air in sufficient amount. 



Tracheotomy Tubes. 



Peuch's Tracheotomy Tubes. 



The veterinary surgeon inserts the tracheotomy tube in an opening which 

 he makes at about the junction of the upper and middle thirds of the trachea 

 or air passage. This air passage is composed of rings of cartilage or gristle. 

 Two or three of these rings are divided. Then the tube is inserted into the 

 orifice which has been made, and tied in its place. When an abscess is 

 being formed, it is well to apply blisters if it is tardy in coming to a point. Some 

 prefer the application of poultices. Many accidents of a serious nature have 

 occurred from the opening of abscesses by amateurs. In one case under our 

 notice, the duct or tube which conducts the saliva from the gland to the 

 mouth was divided, and for a long time afterwards a pint or more of sali\a 

 ran daily from the opening made. 



Sometimes little vesicles or blebs form on the skin in parts where a deep 

 abscess is being formed. They sometimes act as valuable guides in helping 

 us to locate points of inflammation. After an abscess is opened it must be 



