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the tube must be made smooth by soldering: an iron ring: on 
the edge, to prevent abrasions of the mouth. 
2. The bowl (only) to be filled by pouring the liquid 
through a funnel or from a lipped jug into the tube ; next, 
hold the tube in a horizontal position with the bowl sus¬ 
pended, pass the orifice of the tube through the angle of the 
mouth as far as the last molar tooth, by the side of the 
tongue; then bring the bowl to the top of the tube by ro¬ 
tating it between the thumb and fingers, and the fluid descends 
the tube. 
3. The following appear to be the advantages arising from 
the use of the ‘^Veterinary Medicine and Dietary Tins 
I. It being only necessary to elevate the animal’s head a 
little higher than the horizontal position, he will be quieter. 
IT. The size of the delivery tube moderates the flow of the 
liquid, and it can be caused to flow in small quantities, and 
at intervals, by rotating the tube. 
III. In giving gruel, as it must be passed through the 
tube into the bowl before it is given to the patient, there can 
be no risk of choking by large lumps passing into the throat. 
CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE STOMACH AND 
INTESTINES OF A PONY. 
By W. Elam, M.R.C.V.S., Huddersfield. 
Dear Sir,— I have forwarded to you the stomach and 
part of the rectum of a black pony. He was rising five years 
old, fourteen hands high, the property of a tradesman of this 
‘town. 
I was requested to attend this case on the 20th of Novem¬ 
ber, 1862. The pony was then labouring under an acute 
attack of pleurisy, which in a few days yielded to the treat¬ 
ment I adopted, with the exception of a little supervening 
debility, for which I gave diffusible stimulants, with vegetable 
tonics. Being, as it was thought, sufficiently recovered, the 
animal was put to work; but on the 20th of December, 1862, 
I was again sent for by the owner, who stated that the pony 
would not eat, and that it had not passed any faeces. I, 
therefore, examined the rectum, which I found distended, 
not, however, with hardened excrement, but with faeces of a 
pultaceous character. These I removed with the hand, but 
in doing so was surprised to find, what appeared to me to 
