CHOKING

Threatened choking may occur either in the gullet or swallow—or in the windpipe. If in the gullet pre down the tongue with the handle of a spoon, and pa the fingers down without any hesitation, when the substance may generally be dislodged or pulled up. When it is small, and has got out of reach, it may mostly be removed by filling the mouth with liquid and swallowing it at a gulp, or by swallowing a large piece of bread. Foreign bodies thus swallowed generally pa harmle ly through the bowels. If the choking occur in the windpipe or trachea, it is usually dislodged by the paroxysm of coughing which accompanies the act. Should it fail to be so, and a sense of suffocation ensues, accompanied with bluene of countenance and difficulty of breathing, place the patient, and follow the directions given in the article “ Suspended animation ,” while a medical man is immediately sent for. Treatment for Horses or Cattle. —Remove any foreign body by hand, as directed above, or have recourse to the probang. It may perhaps be nece ary to call in a veterinary surgeon, in case the above methods fail, to extract the obstruction by cutting into the gullet.