Try also pouring some oil or thin grease into the gullet through a horn inserted into the mouth. A pinch or small spoonful of coarse gun-powder put far back _under the animal’s tongue_, will often cause a violent regurgitation or vomiting, which brings up the offending substance. Give also F.F., every half hour, if the animal is bloated or distressed with wind, or the J.K., if suffering from indigestion. If it be too far down the œsophagus for removal in this manner, the obstruction must be pushed into the stomach. For this purpose a probang must be carefully used. A good, common probang, which will not lacerate the gullet, may be readily made from a piece of firm rope, from half-inch to an inch in diameter and four or five feet long. Wind the end of this from two or three inches down to near the end with firm, strong twine, so as to make a firm square, not pointed end. Secure the twine carefully in the strands, so it will not unravel, or yet better, wind the ends of the cord along in the strands of the rope to the handle. Then smear the bulb and rope with lard, and pass the probang down to the obstruction, and, using it like a ram-rod, drawing it back but a few inches at a stroke, you can readily drive down the obstruction, without danger of lacerating the gullet, as you are in great danger of doing by using a “rakestail” or other piece of stiff wood, causing the death of the patient. Wounds Animals are often exposed to wounds, which differ in character and importance, according to the manner in which they have been produced, the extent of the injury, and the part wounded. =Incised Wounds= are produced by instruments with sharp edges; these wounds have no jagged edges, and heal most rapidly. =Stab Wounds= may not appear very considerable on the surface, but may be very serious, as important parts may have been injured. If a bowel has been cut, blood is generally discharged from the anus, or the contents of the bowel escape through the external wound. If the parts around a stab wound soon begin to swell, blood-vessels and intestines have probably been injured, and extravasation of blood takes place. =Lacerated Wounds= are caused by rough and blunt bodies, have a jagged and uneven appearance, and, although large and important blood-vessels have been divided, in general there is but little bleeding.