When the symptoms are of such a type as portend the access of paroxysms of threatened suffocation, bleeding has been strongly recommended, but unless resorted to in the first twenty-four or forty-eight hours is rarely admissible. Also in weakened constitutions and when the fever is of a low type, with small, weak pulse and general dullness and prostration, the temporary relief obtainable from bloodletting will not often counterbalance the danger of increasing weakness, and the loss of recuperative power. In all such cases the application of a strong mustard poultice for several hours in succession, until an abundant effusion has taken place, into the skin and beneath it, has often the best effect by virtue of its depletive and derivative action. Active friction of the limbs to improve their circulation and increase their temperature is also useful. =Tracheotomy.= When suffocation becomes imminent not a moment must be lost in performing _tracheotomy_. This operation is always available in threatened suffocation from obstruction to the passage of air in the nostrils and throat. Different methods of opening the windpipe have been resorted to. One is by means of a cannula and trochar at least three-fourths of an inch in diameter and about five inches long and with two large oval orifices in the middle of the cannula, and on opposite sides. This is made to transfix the windpipe with its investing skin and muscles from side to side in the middle of the neck, care being taken to pass it in the interval between two adjacent cartilaginous rings. The trochar is now withdrawn and the orifice in the cannula corresponding to the interior of the windpipe, the animal is enabled to breath freely through the tube. The cannula has only then to be secured in its place by a tape carried round the neck. The more common plan is by introducing a tube through a circular opening made in the trachea. For this operation are needed, scissors, knife with a thin narrow blade, needle and thread, and tracheotomy tube. The common tube is about an inch in diameter, four to five inches long bent upon itself so as to fit into the trachea, and furnished with a flat shield to slits in which cords may be attached to fix it in its place. A second variety is only long enough to reach into the windpipe. It is provided with a flattened shield externally and from its inner extremity projects downwards at right angles a plate curved so as to adapt it to the form of the interior of the trachea. There is an additional plate to fit into the upper part of the tube, provided with two lips projecting from it at right angles; the outer lip is screwed to the shield after the tube has been introduced into the wind pipe and the inner lip is thus fixed inside the ring of the trachea, immediately above the opening and effectually prevents any displacement of the tube.