MEXICAN PRACTICE 67 



"All right, sir; but, in order to be able to make 

 the dissection without endangering the life of the 

 cow by death from hemorrhage, we must use 

 chloroform anesthesia. The danger of accident- 

 ally wounding either the carotid artery or the 

 jugular vein is exceedingly great in the region in 

 which the tumor lies; to reduce this danger to a 

 minimum we will resort to the chloroform 

 anesthesia with the object of making sudden 

 jerky head movements impossible. 



"But, to obtain the best and most smooth 

 results with chloroform we must enforce a fast of 

 twenty-four hours on the patient. I will be here 

 tomorrow at this time to operate." 



This looked O. K. to his highness, and we 

 parted. 



If that cow gets nothing to eat until I arrive 

 to perform that operation she is pretty hollow by 

 this time. And really, it was a pretty low-down 

 trick on my part! But then, I wanted to get 

 back to the States, and there was some mule in 

 me, you know. 



I left that night with my friend. And the joke 

 of it was that his "pull" was no good on the train; 

 we had to pay our fare just the same as the rest 

 of the passengers. But I didn't care; I was head- 

 ing for the good old U. S. A., and that was good 

 enough for me. 



What I wanted to illustrate by this incident is 

 that you can't scare the "high-ups" in Mexico 

 with a $100 fee on a cow case. 



In the interior of Mexico I saw a type of horse 

 quite frequently which I have never seen any- 



