INFLAMMATION OF THE JUGULAR VEIN. 
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may devise some remedy ; but if seated near the en¬ 
trance into the stomach, little hopes can be entertained of 
a cure. 
Horses eating too greedily sometimes swallow their food 
in too large masses, and before it is properly masticated, 
which has in many instances lodged in the gullet, producing 
alarming symptoms of suffocation. 
Remedies. —The first thing to be tried is to force the ball 
of food which obstructs the passage downwards, by the aid 
of the elastic tube used for the hove in cattle. Sometimes 
it cannot be dislodged even by means of this instrument. 
In that case the only other remedy is to cut open the gullet 
to prevent suffocation. But this operation need not be 
described, as it can only be successfully performed by a 
veterinary surgeon. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE JUGULAR VEIN. 
In the horse the jugulars are single on both sides of the 
neck, while in horned cattle they are double. Inflammation 
is sometimes induced in them after the operation of bleeding, 
directions for which we shall give hereafter. 
After bleeding has been performed, the practice is to 
bring the cut edges of the vein together, and to keep them 
in contact by inserting a pin through the skin above it, and 
twisting tow pretty tightly round it, so as to keep it from 
being removed. In a couple of days the wound will have 
completely healed in most cases. 
Causes. —A variety of causes may, however, operate to 
induce inflammation of the vein. Among these may be 
enumerated striking too hard on the lancet with the fleam, 
(an instrument used in bleeding,) or using a blunt or rusty 
lancet. In other cases, by pulling the skin too far from the 
neck while drawing the wound together, and thus allowing 
