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excessive, and the struggles Tiolent, bleeding wUl be best. 

 The administration of chloroform when the system is in great 

 commotion, and the life powers vigorous, would be attended 

 with considerable danger ; the animal might rupture a large 

 blood vessel or the diaphragm, either of which would result 

 iu the death of the horse. My advice is (if the patient be 

 as I have described) to unloose the hobbles, and allow him 

 to rise, and whUe upon his feet, to abstract blood from the 

 neck untU the pulse falters, after which allow him to agaia 

 go down, and duriag that complete relaxation of the system 

 which arises from fainting, the efforts to return the intestine 

 should be renewed. 



VI. — In elevating the hind quarters, avoid forcing the 

 animal all of a heap. 



VII. — Before returning the bowel, empty the rectum, and 

 give careful attention to every little circumstance which vdll 

 prove favourable to the success of the operation. 



VIII. — WhUe attempting the operation, maiataia the 

 hiad limbs of the patient flexed to the utmost extent possible ; 

 but if this cannot be done in consequence of the struggles of 

 the animal, free one limb from the hobbles, and by means 

 of a web or a soft rope, pull the limb aside, or forward, 

 or backward, as necessity may require ; by these means the 

 operator will procure all the space withiu the belly, and all 

 the laxity of its muscles which it is possible under the cir- 

 cumstances to obtain. 



By one or other of the modes now described, I have in every 

 case of Inflammation arising from strangulated bowel which has 

 come under my care succeeded in afibrding relief to the patient. 



