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REMARKS ON .ETHERIZATION. 
opinion supported by two veterinary surgeons who had examined 
the horse on Saturday last, and who also proved the navicular 
disease to be a cause of permanent unsoundness, and incurable. 
This conflicting testimony might have puzzled the Jury had it not 
transpired during the inquiry that the defendant was a member of 
a horse dealers’ club in London, the funds of which were devoted 
to pay the expences of these trials (a circumstance urged with 
much force in the reply of the plaintiff’s counsel), and the Jury, on 
a short conference, gave the plaintiff a verdict for £10. 
Morning Chronicle , April 9, 1847. 
THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
It is some considerable time since the interest of the public in 
medical matters was so generally aroused, their sympathy so deeply 
and universally excited, as it has proved to be in the instance of 
^ETHERIZATION. The subject happens to have been one which, 
by anticipation at least, has touched their keenest if not their best 
feelings. He who himself has felt pain can not only sensitively 
feel for others, but can paint his feelings in such vivid colours as 
to draw down upon him the compassion of those even who have 
never felt it, and so create such a general sympathy towards this 
pain-stifling panacea as is likely, in the end, to be productive of 
good in more ways than one. People, for instance, so impressed, 
it is just possible, may feel more disposition to come forward libe- 
rally and handsomely in aid of our public medical institutions. 
Sympathize, however, for their fellow-men or not, it is certain 
they begin to feel for their animals. Horses are now sent to vete- 
rinary surgeons to be cetherized before they be operated upon. 
And why not! — Why should even brutes suffer pain while a 
bottle of sulphuric aether stands in the veterinarian’s pharmacy ! 
Cannot horses be affected by aethereal inhalation the same as man! 
If a man can by such means be thrown, as it were, by incantation, 
