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Iii the absence of such an instrument, a penknife and large 

 quill or hollow cane may be used, and Papin relates a case 

 in which a lady, aware of the danger incurred by delaying, 

 thrust her own scissors into her cow's side and saved her. 

 We cannot recommend an instrument so awkward and 

 usually so blunt as a pair of scissors, but almost any sharp 

 object will give vent to the confined gas and save the animal 

 from death by suffocation. 



CHRONIC HOVE 



Presents itself tinder a variety of circumstances, and varies 

 consequently in its progress and termination. A cow some- 

 times is predisposed to indigestion, and after a severe attack 

 the stomachs are with difficulty reduced to their normal 

 condition. This manifests itself usually by gaseous disten- 

 tion whenever any green food is allowed the animal, and 

 requires a very careful system of diet, and the exhibition of 

 aromatics and tonics. 



A couple of tablespoonfuls of the following mixture : 

 Bruised coriander seeds, \ 

 Carbonate of soda, L equal parts, 



Common salt, J 



given with food, such as bean meal and boiled turnips, daily, 

 may exert a beneficial influence. 



Some cases of chronic hove are coupled with obstructions 

 and other functional derangement or organic disease of the 

 third stomach or intestine. In such a case the cause of the 

 nove must be attacked. 



When the trochar has been used there is difficulty in 

 removing it, in occasional instances, from the accumulation 

 of gas whenever the trochar is displaced. The size of the 

 instrument should then be gradually diminished and the 

 above aromatic mixture used. But should that fail, the a'ni- 



