THE USE OF CHLOROFORM. 
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must be had recourse to. The President of the Board of Trade 
with truth said, that the best way of checking the progress of the 
disease was by inoculation ; — that every other way was found in- 
effectual ; — that inoculation reduced the mortality to a very small 
amount; but that there was a prejudice among veterinary sur- 
geons against inoculation. I am not aware that the veterinary pro- 
fession has been consulted, as a body, about it, and cannot conceive 
on what authority this assertion was made. Professor Simonds 
has made experiments on inoculation, and he certainly does not 
seem prejudiced against it. I pointed at inoculation as the only 
preventive resorted to on the continent in the November number of 
The VETERINARIAN of last year ; and likewise that no good effect 
had resulted from vaccination, which had also been tried. On the 
continent, veterinary surgeons are appointed purposely to take cog- 
nizance of epizootic diseases, and to prevent their spreading ; a 
similar course should be recommended in this country. 
THE VETERINARIAN, SEPTEMBER 1, 1848. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — CicEno. 
A NOVEL and striking feature presents itself in our present 
Number in the administration of chloroform as a medicine ; and 
the credit of first adventuring on the employment of an agent in- 
ternally which, externally used, has proved itself to be so terrifi- 
cally formidable, belongs, we are proud to say, to our talented 
correspondent and professional brother, Mr. Mayhew. On a sub- 
ject of the present and increasing importance this is likely to be- 
come, we cannot in the commencement have presented to us too 
many or too varied facts of a nature likely to serve as directing 
posts to us in our onward march of inquiry ; and therefore it is 
that we have introduced into our “ Home Extracts,” from The 
Medical Times, a case from human medicine, in which Asiatic 
cholera was successully treated by giving chloroform internally, by 
Mr. Brady, surgeon, at Harrow. This case was published on the 
12th August. Mr. Mayhew’s paper, which bears the date of the 
5th August, was received by us on the 10th ; consequently, Mr. 
Mayhew’s experiment stands in no relationship whatever with Mr. 
Brady’s. Quite the contrary, indeed; for, singularly enough, both 
