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of burning sulphur, give warm water injections or eveis 

 a mild laxative, (horse, ox or steep, Glauber salts ; dog oi 

 pig, castor oil), followed by refrigerant diuretics (nitre, 

 acetate of potassa, etc.). If debility ensues feed weU and 



Fig. 11. 



Fig. II — Syphon for injecting the nose. 



give tonics (gentian, etc.,) and stimulants (spirits of nitroua 

 ether). Chronic discharges may usually be promptly 

 checked by injecting the nose with a weak astringent 

 solution (sulphate of zinc ^ dr., glycerine 1 oz., tepid 

 water 1 qt.) This is thrown in with a syphon having one 

 arm sixteen inches long and the other leaving that at an 

 angle of 45°, three and a half inches long and narrowing to 

 half an inch at the point. The short limb is inserted into 

 the nostrU, having first been passed through a hole in the 

 centre of a piece of sole leather intended to prevent the 

 return of the fluid from the nose. The adaptation is 

 perfected by pledgets of tow, and the head being brought 

 into a vertical position the liquid is poured into the long 

 end of the syphon until it rises in that nasal chamber 

 and escapes by the opposite nostril. One or two such in- 

 jections are usually sufficient. 



COLLECTION OF MATTER IN THE NASAL SINUSES. 



This is common after severe colds in the horse ; and as 

 the result of blows on the forehead or horns in oxen, of 

 injuries from the yoke, etc. ; in sheep from grub in the 

 head (larva of CEstrus Ovis) ; in dogs and horses from the 

 pentastomata, and in aU animals from diseases of the upper 

 back teeth. 



Symptoms. A more or less constant discharge fronc 



