178 STOMACH-STAGGEES. 



sionally that the instant the knife is withdrawn the stomach 

 partially protrudes, and the food emerges itself. This is not 

 unfavourable if care is taken to fix the paunch, so as to pre- 

 vent the grass from entering the peritoneum. 



The last-named accident is not the most dangerous which 

 may happen, and animals often, and, indeed, generally re- 

 cover after it. We have chiefly to fear the imperfect closure 

 of the wound. To insure this after the food is cleaned from 

 the wounds, the opening in the paunch must first be closed, 

 taking especial care that the lips are slightly turned inwards 

 so as to get the outer coat of the stomach in apposition. If 

 the inner lining meets there is not so ready a union. Having 

 fixed the lips of the inner wound, the outer one is tied by 

 three or four stitches of strong flexible metallic wire, and a 

 stick is used on either lip over the skin, round which each 

 suture may be fixed so as to prevent dragging on the soft 

 tissues themselves. This in surgical language is called a 

 quilled suture. 



After the operation the animal requires to be very judici- 

 ously managed as to food, though not starved. 



IMPACTION OF THE THIRD STOMACH. VEETIGO. FARDEL 

 BOUND. GRASS OR STOMACH - STAGGERS. LEAD 

 POISONING. 



It is the third stomach of ruminants which frequently 

 arrests a quantity of fodder, and obstructs the alimentary 

 canal. The two first stomachs necessarily participate in this 

 disease, and as I have before said, hove is not an unfrequent 

 complication. 



The term staggers has been applied to a host of dis- 

 orders, varying much in nature, and arising from causes of 

 the most opposite description. A horse is said to have stag- 

 gers when, from compression of the veins by a tight collar, 



