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with ammonia to his nostrils. I found sensibility and conscious- 
ness returning. There was an unnatural heat of skin all over the 
body. From the time of putting on the muzzle to the finishing 
of the operation was six and a-half minutes, time being kept by 
Mr. R. Jones, and Mr. T. Hartley, surgeons, Malton, and by Mr. 
Thomas Cooper, veterinary surgeon, Northallerton, Yorkshire, who 
kindly consented to be present at the operation, and who can testify 
to the accuracy of this statement. In twelve minutes from the 
time of the muzzle being put on he was on his legs again ; and 
though weak, was able to walk to his box, a distance of one hundred 
yards, and in less than half an hour would have fed as well as 
ever, had he been allowed. On the following day, after the clams 
were taken off, he had an hour’s exercise ; and from that day to the 
present he has never omitted having two hours’ exercise daily 
(Sundays excepted). He is now breaking in to ride, and is 
mounted, and in constant work every day. The chloroform used 
was obtained through Mr. Jefferson, chemist, Malton, from Mr. 
White, York, and it proved excellently pure. 
P.S. — You may form some idea of the effect produced, by an 
old Yorkshire farmer who was present exclaiming, as the animal 
lay unconscious after the operation, “ He’s dead, he’s dead ! I will 
not give a shilling for him !” 
21st January, 1848. 
THE USE OF LIME IN OPENED JOINT. 
By the same. 
Jan. 8 th y 1847. — I WAS summoned to attend a grey cart-horse, 
the property of Mr. David Cook, Settrington, that had two days 
before received a severe kick on the inside of the near hock ; and, 
notwithstanding, had been worked a whole day at plough. I 
found the synovia escaping from the wound every time the horse 
moved his leg. I at once pronounced that it was a case of opened 
joint, and gave a dose of physic, &c. 
From that time till the 4th of February I tried without success 
every mode of treatment I could think of. Having heard of the 
peculiar action of quick lime, I procured some, and applied it to 
the wound, and continued to re-apply it whenever there was an 
escape of synovia, which happened as frequently as twenty times 
in the course of the day (more or less). By perseverance, how- 
ever, it became less frequent. The lime acted (allow me to use 
the phrase) with railway speed, for on the 7th of February the 
