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must then at every hazard be supported. Should it 

 be possible to insert a small horn or the neck of a 

 small bottle between his tushes and his grinders, al- 

 most any quantity of gruel may be given him ; and 

 when he is in a manner starved, it is interesting to 

 see how eagerly the poor creature will take the 

 nourishment which is offered him in this way. The 

 dreadful cramp of the muscles of his neck should not, 

 however, be forgotten ; and the gruel should be given 

 to him as gently as possible, and without elevating 

 his head more than is absolutely necessary. Fre- 

 quent injections of arrow-root or gruel may also be 

 thrown up. Where, however, the proprietor is pos- 

 sessed of the instrument, the ordinary horse catheter, 

 with Read's pump attached to it, will enable any 

 amount of gruel to be thrown into the stomach of an 

 animal which suffers from lock-jaw of the chronic or 

 slow description ; not only quickly, but without the 

 necessity of elevating the head. The horse catheter 

 is simply passed up the nose, along the floor of the 

 nasal chamber ; and being pushed onward it will en- 

 ter the gullet. When the tube is inserted its full 

 length, the fluid may be injected. This stratagem 

 answers admirably ; and subjects the horse to little 

 annoyance. Some animals, especially when acutely 

 affected, are so irritable, that any interference throws 

 them into convulsion ; and, in such cases, perhaps the 

 injection of nutritive liquids into the rectum is even 

 more than the symptoms will permit to be done. 



In a disease of this nature the humanity and pa- 

 tience of the attendant must, however, be exerted. 

 These virtues will aid him more in the end than all 



