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IV. — Do not hold the head of the patient to an 

 inordinate height, otherwise he may experience great diffi- 

 culty in swallowing. Horses cannot swallow when the 

 nose is held too high, and the neck stretched to an undue 

 extent. 



V. — Should the patient cough at any time during the 

 administration of medicine, instantly lower the head ; if this 

 be not done, serious consequences to the animal may result. 



VI. — If coughiag is caused, let the animal thoroughly 

 recover from itseifects before the drenching process is renewed- 



DaNGEB ATTENDING THE AdMINISTEATION OP LIQUIDS.— 



It is dangerous when a portion of the liquid enters into the 

 windpipe ; and such a consequence may readily occur. With 

 an experienced operator, however, a result of this nature is not 

 likely to take place. The danger is in the animal coughing 

 while in the act of receiving the medicine from the horn, and 

 in the operator not liberating the head at the same moment. 



By lowering the head, and ceasing to give medicine at the 

 moment coughing is caused, and by allowing the animal to 

 remain quiet until the violence fully subsides, there is no 

 danger. 



The symptoms by which the presence of extraneous sub- 

 stances within the windpipe may be known are the following : — 



The patient commences suddenly to hreathe violently. 



The suddenness of the attack, when giving medicine out of 

 a horn or a bottle, is a certain indication of what has occurred. 



The breathing is laboured to an extreme degree ; the air, 

 in fact, is drawn through an obstructed passage. There is also 

 much violent, almost incessant, coughing; shivering of the body; 



