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life sinking through starvation, food may be given even in quantities. 
Blood-warm linseed gruel should be procured—a gallon will be sufficient. 
THE MODE OF FEEDING A HORSE WITH CHRONIC TETANUS. 
The horse could swallow more; but after a prolonged fast there is danger 
in loading the stomach. Fix the horse catheter to the stomach-pump ; 
then place the free end of the catheter in the nostril of the quadruped 
and push it forward, having previously slightly bent the end of the tube 
downward. Should the insertion provoke coughing, withdraw the 
catheter and commence afresh. Two feet of the instrument having dis- 
appeared, and no alarming symptom being present, begin to pump; do 
this as fast as possible, till the gallon of linseed gruel has been ex- 
hausted : such a resort is, however, better adapted to tetanus of the 
chronic description. 
When applied to the acute form of the disorder, it is too apt to induce 
violent spasm. The acute disease, however, speedily terminates, and 
positive starvation is all but impossible during its brief continuance. 
STRINGHALT. 
Stringhalt is the imperfect development of that form of disease which, 
in man and in dogs, is called chorea, or St. Vitus’s dance. In dogs it 
jerks the whole body, even to the face. The lower jaw will continue 
moving and the eye twitching, while the animal is prostrate and asleep. 
In the horse, however, it is seen only in the hind extremities. In the 
dog it will continue during progression, sometimes shaking the creature 
from its balance, and it often terminates in death. In the horse it is 
never fatal; and, save when about to start, is seldom to be detected. 
Then it causes the hind limbs to be quickly raised in succession. The 
movement is rapid, full of energy, and entirely involuntary. These 
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