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swallowing. Tn addition to this hand rub the throat well 
around the gullet and apply white liniment five or six times a 
day until better. 
20. Choking With Oats. 
This is generally found in old horses that are very greedy 
feeders and not used to getting oats regularly. 
Causes. — A horse having been out at pasture then 
brought in and given a feed of oats sometimes goes at it very 
greedily, fills his mouth and tries to swallow it without chew- 
ing it properly, thus causing him to choke. 
Fig. 10. — A Horse Choking with Oats, 
Symptoms. — He refuses to eat his oats. Examine the 
box and there is very little of the oats gone. He slobbers at 
the mouth and coughs. Watch him for a few minutes. He 
gags and draws the muscles of the neck stifif and bends the 
neck down as if he were trying to force it up from his throat. 
He takes violent fits of coughing for a few minutes, and in 
some cases he throws out a frothy substance probably mixed 
with a few oats. These symptoms continue until he is 
relieved. 
Treatment. — In some cases a drench of raw linseed oil 
will work around the oats and make them slippery so that he 
will be able to cough them out or swallow them down. It is 
also well to hand rub him along the neck, and thus help to 
start the oats down to the stomach. He generally gets 
entirely over it in a few hours. After a few hours, if not 
