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FOREIGN BODIES IN THE OESOPHAGUS OF CATTLE. 
During the next few days soft food or hay may be supplied.. Tainturier 
gives nothing but hay and pure water to cattle, and in one case 
obtained healing in thirty-five, and in another in twenty-five days. 
Malzew performed oesophagotomy five times in oxen and six in dogs, 
p IG> 78.—To illustrate the operation of oesophagotomy. 
A, oesophagus; B, carotid artery; C, trachea. (Semi-schematic.) 
healing occurred within eighteen to twenty-three days in the oxen, and 
in twelve to eighteen in the dogs. 
Although the animals fall away in condition, bad consequences are 
rarely observed. The subcutaneous breaking down of the foreign body, 
suggested by Lafosse, is liable to injure the jugular, and is usually 
followed by pus formation, necessitating enlargement of the wound 
Mauri has, nevertheless, recommended this treatment recently, »hou 
difficulties or delays occur in removing the foreign body, and considera > e 
