226 HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES. 



Use. — Chloroform is an excellent stimulant, when 

 given to horses having a chill, or shivering fit, from con- 

 gestion, or from cold, and is equal to turpentine, for the 

 cure of colic. An excellent liniment is made, by adding 

 one ounce of chloroform, to two of olive oil. 



Dose. — Chloroform is given to the horse and cow, in 

 doses from one to two drachms, mixed in weak whisky, 

 and repeated every two or three hours, or till the colic is 

 relieved. 



Inhalation. — -The inhalation of chloroform, by either 

 horse, or ox, is attended with risk, provided the animal 

 be not secured, or tied, so that it cannot get loose ; be- 

 cause some horses, and cattle, become completly wild, when 

 the effects of the inhalation commences to act upon the 

 brain. On the other hand, some horses will quietly 

 stand up, others, as quietly, will lay down, under its ef- 

 fects. 



Two to four ounces are sufficient to produce anasthse- 

 sia, or loss of sensibility. The usual way of giving chlo- 

 roform by inhalation, is, by pouring about two ounces 

 of chloroform, on a soft, and moist sponge, whilst the an- 

 imal is tied down, and hold the sponge to one nostril 

 only, covering the nose loosely, with a large towel, to save 

 the fumes of the chloroform; but not too tightly, to ex- 

 clude pure air from being admitted, with the fumes of the 

 chloroform. 



In all operations, lasting any length of time, whether 

 in the horse or the cow, humanity and fine feeling, de- 

 mand the outlay for a little chloroform. It is not neces- 

 sary to completely destroy all feeling — just sufiicient to 

 blunt the sensibility of the nervous centres. 



GhologOgues. — Medicines which increase the flow of 

 bile. 



