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nate of potash in a quart of water is to be preferred. In either 

 case the addition of an ounce of pure glycerine renders the lotion 

 at once more soothing and more efficient. The solution must be 

 rendered tepid before injecting it, to obviate the irritation attend- 

 ing on the contact of a cold fluid with the delicate membrane of the 

 nose. Among other agents may be named creolin, creosol, creo- 

 sote, acetate of lead, potassium permanganate, and silver nitrate. 

 Peroxide of hydrogen may be used either as injection or in spray. 



The mode of injection is a matter of no small moment. It has 

 been done in some instances by means of a large syringe but the 

 irritation attendant on such a process is an insuperable objection 

 to its use. A better instrument is that introduced by Professor 

 Rey of lyyons. It consists in a tube bent on itself at an angle of 

 35° so as to form two arms of inequal lengths. The longer fif- 

 teen inches in length, one and a half in diameter and widening 

 into a funnel at its free end ; — the shorter about five inches long 

 and tapering towards its free end where its aperture is only two- 

 thirds of an inch across. The instrument is made of block tin 

 or extemporaneously of gutta percha. Over the shorter arm is 

 placed a tightly fitting leather ring four and a half inches in di- 

 ameter on which is applied some wet tow to adapt it to the nostril 

 and effectually close it. The nose having been drawn in so as to 

 place the head in a vertical position, the short arm of the instru- 

 ment is introduced into the affected nostril, and the liquid being 

 gently poured into the long arm rises slowly in the nose until it 

 is filled and the liquid flows from the nostril on the opposite side. 

 In introducing the tube, care must be taken that it may not irri- 

 tate the inner wall of the nose on the one hand, nor pass into the 

 blind pouch, known as the/a/^^ nostril, on the other. 



The greatest gentleness and tact are requisite in thus injecting 

 the nostrils, though in troublesome animals it is sometimes neces- 

 sary to resort to blindfolding or even to the application of a twitch 

 on the ear, or finally to strapping the animal (head included) to 

 a smooth, firm vertical surface (operating table). 



