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DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



giving a ball, the horse's tongue is drawn out on the off or right side, 

 and held firmly with the left hand, while with the right tihe ball is 

 quickly passed over the tongue into the pharynx, or top of the gul- 



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Fig. 933.— Bad Method of Giving Ball. 



let. The hand should be kept: as near to the roof of the mouth as 

 possible in giving the ball ; there will then be much less danger of 

 being wounded by the teeth. The moment the right hand is with- 

 drawn frbm the mouth, the tongue^ is let loose, and the ball generally 

 swallowed. 



Balls cannot be conveniently given unless wrapped up in paper ; 



Fig. 934.— Approved Method. 



but for this purpose the softest and thinnest should be chosen. In 

 holding the tongue with the left hand, while the ball is introduced, 

 great care is required, as the rough and violent manner in which this 

 is sometimes done often injures the tongue, or lacerates the under 

 part of it. The muscles by which swallowing is effected may also 

 be seriously injured in this way. In violent colds, strangles, etc., 



