()2 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
ing unless the vessel is cut across, and thus retracts by its inhe¬ 
rent elasticity, and becomes compressed by the neighbouring 
integument and cellular substance. I sometimes fancy that it is 
a very foolish species of charlatanism which induces us to select 
the temporal artery. The jugular may do very well for common 
occasions, or for thoracic and abdominal complaints; but here is 
a serious affection of the head, and we may be thought to dis¬ 
play our practical skill by selecting a vessel belonging to the 
head for the abstraction of blood. We should take care, however, 
that no practical anatomist stands by when we make this attempt 
at effect. 
The Necessity of ascertaining the Cause of the Disease again 
enforced. —We must next turn to account the intelligence which 
we have obtained of the previous circumstances of the case. Is 
it known that the animal had got at the corn, or pea, or chaff- 
bin, and that his stomach is probably distended to the utmost; 
or, at least, so distended as to be unable to contract upon its 
contents ? or on that or the preceding day had he worked harder 
or longer than usual, and then, according to the foolish kindness 
of many travellers, had had a double feed of corn given to him, 
or was suffered to eat as much as he liked ? In this case I ask, 
with my excellent friend Mr. Percivall, of what avail can we 
expect our physic to be, introduced into a stomach already 
crammed with indigested food?—what effect can even twelve or 
twenty drachms of aloes have poured down the oesophagus, and 
scarcely able to penetrate into the stomach ? 
The Stomach-pump. —We have relieved congestion, and some- 
W'hat lessened the tendency to inflammation by our bleeding; 
but we must not leave the cause of that congestion and inflamma¬ 
tion untouched, and we probably cannot touch it by our physic. 
Then next comes the stomach-pump—to us one of the most 
valuable discoveries of modern times, and affording us the means 
of combating several diseases which had previously set all me¬ 
dical skill at defiance. We must inject warm water; the horse 
is incapable of offering much resistance: and we must continue 
the injection not only until we have so far diluted the contents 
of the stomach that a portion of them will escape through the 
pyloric orifice, but until the obstruction to vomiting offered by 
the ureter-like entrance of the oesophagus is overcome, and the 
food is returned through the nose or the mouth. 
Phpsic. —This being effected, or we having ascertained that 
there was no extraordinary cause for the disease, nor probable 
extreme distention of the stomach, although it may still be the 
result of bad management; or that by mere possibility, and in 
a very few instances, this affection of the head can be traced to 
