FAILURE OF /ETHERIZATION IN HORSES. 241 
By names and outward appearances are the folks — we were going 
to write the flats — caught ; and say what you may, and he what 
you may, without a name, and some powder of post too, there is 
no getting on in this oddly-constituted world of ours. 
The communication of Messrs. Henderson and Cherry will cast 
a damper upon aetherization, so far as horses at least are concerned. 
From the accounts contained in our last Number, strengthened 
by others in our impression for the present month, we were hardly 
prepared for such a result as this; notwithstanding, as we must 
confess, Mr. Mayhew from the first warned us not to be too 
sanguine in our anticipations. So far as a solitary experiment we 
have made ourselves has gone, we must acknowledge it proved a 
complete failure ; but this result was attributed to the imperfection 
of the apparatus used. It does appear to us that we stand sadly 
in want of some inhaling machine or contrivance which will 
effectually compel the inhalation of the fumes at the same time that 
it admits of the free escape of the expired air. It is no more than 
we should expect that the animal under the administration of the 
setherial vapour should, from annoyance and excitement, prove 
highly unmanageable, or require more than ordinary means to 
control him ; at the same time, supposing the inhaling apparatus so 
contrived that it could be securely buckled or fastened upon the 
head, by having sufficient force and means at hand, the animal 
might be restrained until such (short) time as it took to setherise, 
and so to lethargise him ; then, all would be quiet — all, in effect, 
dead , and operations or any thing else might be proceeded with. 
This is the consummation “ devoutly to be wished,” and this, it is 
still hoped, will be in the end achieved : in the mean time we urge 
such veterinary surgeons as have opportunities to persevere i 
trials and experiments. It cannot require any great length of 
time, or any very great number of experiments, to determine, so 
far as animals are concerned, the utility of aether as a suspender of 
sensibility or an antidote against pain. 
