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Jangerous performances. He had had the best of us long enough, 
and now it was for me to show what science had in store for such 
otherwise unmanageable cases. I procured a mixture, composed 
of four ounces of chloroform and the same quantity of sulphuric 
ether; next, a sponge was tied to a broom-handle, and covered 
with a towel. Thus we were enabled to chlorofcrm him at a safe 
distance. 
The patient did not seem to relish this mode of practice. He 
fought for some time, tried to strike and kick me, but, being tem- 
porarily blind, I had the advantage of him. It was soon evident 
that the chloroform was beginning to do its work. The patient 
gradually settled himself on the floor, and was soon completely 
atherized. As it is dangerous to keep a horse under the full effects 
of chloroform any great length of time, I now removed the sponge, 
and only applied it occasionally, slightly saturated, so as to insure 
« sort of incomplete state of insensibility. It was an encouraging 
sight to behold the once powerful and furious animal now lying 
free from pain, and deprived of the power of injuring himself or 
viose in attendance; and it is also gratifying to know that science 
tinisters to the wants and necessities of the inferior as well as the 
superior orders of creation. 
At the expiration of an heur, during which time the anima} 
was more or less under the anesthetic agent, he was allowed to 
rise. He gave himself a few shakes, and seemed very much re- 
lieved and more tranquil. I now gave a drench of spirits of niter 
and infusion of lobelia; administered, also, a lobelia enema, and 
left the patient to the care of his attendants. A few hours after- 
ward I again visited the patient, and learned that he had a slight 
spasn: occasionally, for which I prescribed two drachms of pow- 
dered assafetida. I then introduced the male catheter into the 
bladder, drew off a small quantity of urine, and this completed 
the whole of the treatment. The patient recovered. 
Anoticr case of Spasmodic Colic, treated by Inhalation.—The 
subject was a large and powerful stallion, aged about eight years, 
the proprrty of a gentleman residing in Chicago. The horse was 
attacked in the street with symptoms of acute abdominal pain, 
and, in consequence, was hurried home to the stable. The mo- 
ment he arrived there, he threw himself dawn and commenced 
rolling, and grew excessively uneasy and irritable. In the course 
of an hour our attention was called to him. He ‘hen exhibite i 
