Chapter XIY. 



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OE THE 



DIGESTIVE 



'Drenching a Cow — Injuries of the Mouth — Inflammation • of Mouth and 

 Tongue, Glossitis — Stomach of Ruminants — Intestines of the Ox — 

 Lymphatics — Hoven, or Tymjpanitis — Probang and Gags — Passing thk 

 Probang — Puncturing the Rumen — Impacted Rumen, or Maw-Bound — 

 Rumenotomt — Obstruction of the Gullet, Choking — Impaction of 

 Omasum. 



THE method of administering medicines to cattle is too often both 

 stupid and clumsy. Too. large a drenching horn is used, and it 

 is a common practice for an assistant to seize the animal by the 

 horns, and pull the he^d back, higher than the body, while the med- 

 icine is poured down the throat, the horn being held in the mouth 

 meanwhile, and the animal thereby prevented from swallowing nat- 

 urally. (Fig. 1006.) i 



In such cases, if suf- 

 focation does not follow 

 from the medicine pass- 

 ing into the windpipe, 

 jt is not due to the skill 

 of the operator. Be- 

 side the danger of suf- 

 ocation, the tongue is 

 liable to injury. Some 

 brutal operators seize 

 the tongue with the 

 hand, and draw it to 

 one side, where it is 

 often injured by the 

 teeth of the animal. Sometimes too much force is used, the tongue 

 is pulled too far, the power of retraction is destroyed, and it hangs 

 uselessly from the mouth, an obstruction to mastication. (Fig. 1007.) 



INJURIES OF THE MOUTH. 



These sometimes occur from foreign, substances being taken 

 into the mouth in feeding, and becoming fixed between the teeth, 

 (768) 



Fig. 1006.— Usual Mode of Drenching a Cow 



