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who wish to have their stables healthy. The diseased animal should be. 
placed in a moderately warm,-well ventilated, but not draughty, loose-box.. 
The diet should be at first laxative, consisting of such food as mashes, linseed 
cake, gruel, roots, and grass, ‘In mild cases a febrifuge draught may be given 
three times a day. The following is a useful formula: take of liquor 
ammonii acetatis four ounces, of nitric ether one ounce, of bicarbonate: 
of potassium half an ounce, of water to half a pint or a pint. 
Should severe throat symptoms supervene, it is necessary to allow the: 
horse to breathe the vapour of hot water. When symptoms of strangulation 
show themselves, it is sometimes necessary to make an opening into the 
windpipe, and to insert an instrument through which the horse can breathe 
air—the inflamed and thus obstructed orifice of the air channel, or glottis,. 
no longer allowing of the passage of air in sufficient amount. 
PeucuH’s TRACHEOTOMY TUBES. 
The veterinary surgeon inserts the tracheotomy tube in an opening which 
he makes at about the junction of the upper and middle thirds of the trachea 
or air passage. This air passage is composed of rings of cartilage or gristle. 
Two or three of these rings are divided. Then the tube is inserted into the 
orifice which has been made, and tied in its place. When an abscess is 
being formed, it is well to apply blisters if it is tardy in coming to a point. Some 
prefer the application of poultices. Many accidents of a serious nature have - 
occurred from the opening of abscesses by amateurs, In one case under our’ 
notice, the duct or tube which conducts the saliva from the gland to the- 
mouth was divided, and for a long time afterwards a pint or move of saliva. 
ran daily from the opening made. 
Sometimes little vesicles or blebs form on the skin in parts where a deep». 
abscess is being formed. They sometimes act as valuable guides in helping 
us to locate points of inflammation. After an abscess is opened it must be: 
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