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so that it is with extreme pain motion is excited in them ; and then 
even, rather a tetanic convulsion is excited than a change of place. 
In spite of the severity of the disease, and the difficulty, not to say 
impossibility, of prehension (with the lips) and of deglutition, still 
.does the animal seek after hay and corn. 
Such was the condition of our patient when we came to the 
resolution to subject him to the action of the vapour of ether. 
JUNE 12:— First etherization . — In the absence of a suitable 
apparatus for the administration of ether to an animal so large as a 
horse, we had to adopt means which, though acknowledged to be 
very imperfect in many respects, still answered the end in view. 
We fixed, or rather adjusted, a fumigatory head-collar around 
the head, above the nostrils and commissures of the lips, and 
by two ropes tied the animal fast to the rack: fitting the 
inferior part of the halter most exactly to the circumference of an 
ordinary pail, at the bottom of which was placed a wooden bowl, 
previously furnished with a large sponge impregnated with nearly 
half a pint of ether. 
The inhalation was not tardy in manifesting its effects. During 
the first inspirations the horse resisted violently, under the in- 
fluence of a veritable attack of spasm. In spite of the energetic 
muscular tension, the limbs, and the head and neck, became con- 
vulsed ; the respiration growing very quick, and the movements of 
the flanks tumultuous. 
This course of symptoms insensibly subsided ; the commotion 
changed into a perfect calm ; the respiration became slow and 
deep ; no more than two inspirations could be counted per minute, 
instead of thirty-eight, as before ; the pulse was small and quick. 
At the end of an hour a state of profound drowsiness came on ; the 
muscular spasm and rigidity was less conspicuous ; it was possible 
to produce some slight motions in the limbs and jaws ; the eye had 
lost its unnatural brilliancy, and the countenance that expression 
of anguish so marked in the tetanic subject. This state lasted a 
quarter of an hour ; at the end of which time, sleep began once 
more to forsake the patient, and with his awakening returned 
rigidity, spasm, grinding of the teeth, brilliancy of the eye, im- 
mobility of limb, and acceleration of respiration. Desirous of re- 
newing the influence of the ether, we attached afresh the fumi- 
gating apparatus. It was with great difficulty we arranged the 
apparatus again. From the very first inspiration the animal was 
seized with an attack of furor. He struggled violently, fought 
with his fore legs, and vehemently shook his head. He broke 
away his cavesson and fell down upon his left side, and, immediately 
afterwards rising with energy, he experienced a violent exacerba- 
tion it would be difficult to describe. The respiration grew quick 
