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Title: Elementary lectures on veterinary science, for agricultural students, farmers, and stockkeepers ..
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Henry
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Publisher: London, Baillière, Tindall and Cox
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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while the head and neck are extended, and saliva flows from the mouth ; the nose is pointed up and straight out, with the back of the head seemingly pulled backward and down, giving a remarkable convexity to the lower portion of the neck. The action of the muscles of the neck every now and again gives the impression that the patient is trying to eject the lodgment, and the horse occasionally gives a peculiar scream and falls down on the knees (Fig. 4). In this case, all that can be reached by the hand must be removed, and the animal given a drench of warm water and skim milk mixed, or,better still, thin oatmeal gruel, which induces the action of the gullet,the gruel to be put through a milk strainer or muslin. Should this not succeed, the small end of the probang must be passed with great care. The injection of a dose of arecoline hydrobromide under the skin causes excessive salivation and foaming at the mouth, when, in some cases, the obstruction passes down into the stomach. Arecoline
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Fig. 4 -Choking.
can also be used for cows. Cattle, however, are more subject to choking than horses. They foam at the mouth and soon begin to swell up on the left side, switching the tail and stamping the feet,and this action is accompanied by diarrhoea. Treatment.— If the obstruction —usually a potato or turnip— can be felt, an attempt should be made to work the foreign substance up again into the mouth by putting one arm round the cows neck and, with the fingers on each side of the gullet below the offending body, pressing it firmly and forcibly into the mouth. If this method does not succeed, and the object cannot be withdrawn by the hand, the turnip-rope may be used. This should always be done very carefully and not in a hurry, especially if the animal resists. Should there be a quantity of gas in the stomach and the patient much swollen it may die a mechanical death, owing to the pressure of the gas on the diaphragm, the lungs, and heart, before it can be relieved

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