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sinuses, and other curative or palliative measures, will be 

 found under the proper heads. 



INJUEIES IN SHOEING. 



These, arising from carelessness in nailing the shoe to the 

 foot, or "pricking" him in the operation, from ill-shaped 

 shoes, and the like, are considered in the chapter on 

 Shoeing. 



CHAPTER XXVII 

 TEE EORSE IN SICKNESS AND DISEASE 



CHLOROPORM-BLEBDING-ROWELSANDSETONS 

 -NICKING AND DOCKING-BLISTERING-POUL- 

 TIOING AND BANDAGING. 



CHLOROFORM. 



This important agent has been recently experimented upon 

 with the horse with marked advantage in severe operations. 

 In the interests of humanity, its more frequent use in cases 

 where pain is concerned cannot be too strongly urged. The 

 inhalation of the vapour of sulphuric ether, or of chloroform, 

 is easily effected. A sponge wetted with chloroform being 

 applied to the nostrils of a horse, the first effect is a certain 

 degree of excitement; this is followed by insensibility, and 

 the comatose state is found to continue during the severest 

 applications of the knife and cautery. The stupor remains 

 for some time after the operation is over. The utmost care 

 must be taken that the vapour does not escape externally, 

 and at the same time that the animal is not wholly deprived 

 of atmospheric air. Castration and the extirpation of 

 tumours have been effected under its influence. The horse, 

 unlike man, being little subject to heart disease while in 

 ordinary service, is a safer subject for the action of 

 chloroform. 



BLEEDING. 



Bleeding is of two kinds : from a vein, called phlebotomy 

 (Gr. phleps, a vein, tomos, section), or from an artery 



