Accidents and Operations. 415 
VACCINATION, 
Vaccination is very iargely adopted for the prevention 
ot distemper, and, so far as its beneficial effects are con- 
cerned, it might just as well be practised for the same 
purpose with regard to other canine diseases, Between 
distemper and smallpox (variola) there is not the slightest 
analogy. However, the operation is a harmless one, and, 
as the latter disease does occasionally attack the dog, 
it may be attended with good results. 
The usual places selected for vaccination are the back 
of the neck, the inside of the forearms, and the ears. In 
the latter, care shouid be taken that disease of the cartilaye 
is not occasioned. 
CHLOROFORM 
Little need be said here on the well-known value of 
chloroform in surgical operations on the lower animals. 
In veterinary practice it is now, I am thankful to say, 
extensively used. In the dog it is of especial value ; indeed, 
an operation of any consequence on the larger breeds, and 
those of a savage disposition, could not be performed with 
any degree of comfort or safety without the employment of 
an anesthetic. Ofcourse there are circumstances in which 
its administration would be attended with risk—as in some 
diseases of the respiratory organs and the heart. I have 
only witnessed one fatal result, and that occurred in 
removing a mammary cancer from an old and inordinately 
fat spaniel bitch. She had received every preparation, 
medicinal and otherwise ; the cancer was removed in a few 
minutes under chloroform, and she immediately afterwards 
céased to breathe. A post-mortem examinaticn revealed 
hypertrophy of the heart, with extensive valvutar disease, 
and thus death was readily accounted for. 
On the score of humanity, however, chloroform chiefly 
demands our attention, and with the knowledge that we 
are not inflicting pain is gained strength of nerve, confidence 
