224 THE HORSE AND HIS EIDER. 



this boon, granted by Heaven to the brute beast, should 

 not be withheld from him by man. 



On Mr. Henry Thompson, the celebrated practising 

 surgeon at University College Hospital, and also at Mary- 

 lebone Dispensary, being lately asked " What are the 

 occasions on which you are in the habit of administering 

 chloroform ? " he energetically replied, " For everything 

 that gives PAIN." 



If, therefore, man to this enormous extent is benefited 

 by chloroform, what right has he to withhold it from his 

 own animals, to whom, not only in equity, but by the 

 laws of God, it belongs as much as it belongs to him ? 



Their claims are so affecting, and so obvious, the 

 remedy that would save them from all pain is so. cheap 

 and simple, that it is, we feel, only necessary to appeal to 

 the public to obtain by acclamation a verdict in their favour. 



Professor Spooner, in an address delivered by him to 

 the students of the Veterinary College in October last, 

 stated that in the two chief Veterinary Colleges in France 

 at Alfort and at Lyons pupils, twice a week for seven 

 hours a day, are instructed in surgery by the "vivi- 

 section" or cutting up of living horses, who, until they 

 actually expire, are subjected to a series of cruelties 

 which, although Mr. Spooner professionally described and 

 deprecated, we dare not repeat. 



