APPARATUS FOR THE VAPOUR OF AETHER. 
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horse, worth £40, of another person. I found an immense swell- 
ing in the off flank, with an opening in the skin three or four 
inches long, through which the intestines w'ere protruding and 
looking very dark; but the mare did not appear much disturbed. 
I bled her, gave a strong dose of physic, ordered fomentations to 
the part, and not to allow her to lie down. 
21th . — Physic has acted well : she appears quite empty, and 
not at all disturbed, although the swelling is much greater. 
I cast her on her near side, and well trussed her up with bundles 
of straw, and increased the opening in the skin. I then found there 
were two openings into the cavity of the abdomen, one five inches 
long in an oblique direction backwards, the other ten inches long 
and more perpendicular, extending nearly to the inferior part of 
the abdomen. It required two or three persons to keep the intes- 
tines in place during the operation. I first brought together the 
divided edges of the aponeurosis, then the muscles, and lastly 
the skin, using the metallic wire, and leaving the ends long enough 
to protrude through the outer wound, also leaving an opening in 
the skin at the bottom of the wound to admit of discharge. 
The case went on remarkably well. I called on the 21st Nov. 
to see how my patient was getting on. I found her attached to a 
plough in the field hard at work, with two of the stitches of wire 
still remaining in ; they afterwards came out, and she has been at 
regular work ever since. 
AN APPARATUS FOR THE SAFE ADMINISTRATION 
OF THE VAPOUR OF JETHER. 
Constructed by Robt. OLDEN, Veterinary Surgeon , Cork. 
Perceiving by some articles in your last two publications, and 
your remarks on them, the want of an apparatus by which aether 
can be safely administered to horses, and its action on them fully 
tested, I beg to forward you a drawing of one designed by myself 
and used in my practice. 
In your April Number, among four cases of experiment there 
recorded, there is one (Case 4) in which death was evidently caused 
by suffocation ; and in the other cases a like result would have 
taken place, had not some of the “ common air” got in somehow 
to the apparatus, and, instead of its presence exciting those “ vio- 
lent struggles,” it would appear that it was its absence that did so. 
In your last, in an article on the same subject, I am surprised 
to see a statement that “the mind does not become affected’; the 
perception, both in man and animals, is evidently clear, but no 
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