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TRACHEOTOMY IMPROVEMENTS. 
thing to be done, at all likely to save the poor thing, viz., 
tracheotomy, and that it must be done directly. He then 
left the stable, and I proceeded to make the requisite incision 
through the skin and integuments, and laid bare the trachea. 
Finding him get very restless, I put on the twitch, when, in 
attempting to make an opening through the cartilage, he 
struck out sharply with his fore foot (which made me draw 
back), reared up, and fell backwards, dead in the stall, with- 
out a struggle. This was of course to me a very unsatisfac- 
tory result. It too often happens, I am sorry to say, that 
even with gentlemen — when a veterinary surgeon has been 
in attendance several years — should any one be living a little 
nearer, whether a regular veterinary surgeon or not, that he 
is called in, as they say, “for convenience sake.” In this 
case, severe as it had been, no treatment externally, beyond 
fomentations, had been adopted ; had it been otherwise, I 
doubt not that the result would have been different. 
The other was an old case, quite chronic, and I was told, 
had been amiss for a twelvemonth or more, and the horse, a 
heavy cart horse, lying idle all the time. I saw that nothing 
short of the operation would do for him, and that for a per- 
manency. I accordingly ordered him to be brought to my 
house on a particular day. He came on the day. I had 
procured a tube like No. 1, from Brennand’s, in Holborn, and 
having made the requisite opening, I inserted it, and strapped 
it on, but I soon found that when the horse held his head at 
all downwards, it would not keep its position at all. 
Mr. King’s Tracheotomy Tubes. 
Form of Tube, No. 1. 
No. 2. 
I had a larger one made, rather expensive, but with the 
same result. As the horse was staying -with me, I had every 
