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on horses and dogs, and from them (limited in number) the Pro- 
fessor has come to the following conclusions : — 
I admit that we may, in veterinary surgery, derive advantages 
from the anaesthetic properties of chloroform, and particularly when 
we have to perform painful operations on the smaller animals. 
And, as for the larger animals, they may equally be placed under 
the anaesthetic power of this new agent ; but then the operation 
becomes costly. And on this account, perhaps, veterinarians would 
give the preference to ether, whose price is less, and whose effects 
are no less certain. 
Both agents take effect equally, whether injected into the veins 
or inhaled into the lungs ; though such effect we neither produced 
nor dissipated with the same promptitude. 
What I have noted, in some comparative experiments I have 
made with the two, is — 
Supposing a sufficient dose of both to be administered, the 
anaesthetic effects of chloroform become manifested quicker than 
those of ether, and likewise become dissipated more quickly, pro- 
viding the insensibility be not complete ; but, on the contrary, 
more slowly, whenever chloroform inhalation has been persisted in 
some seconds after the patient has manifested insensibility to 
pinches and prickings. And in this last case the animal is in 
danger of dying. 
Chloroform, preferable as it is to ether, from its acting more 
promptly, possessing a more agreeable odour, and being effica- 
ciously respirable without the necessity of any apparatus, presents, 
however, greater danger than ether, and consequently demands 
more sustained attention on the part of the medical practitioner. 
Bulletin de V Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique. 
Veterinary Education and Practice in France. 
At a moment when, at the instigation of M. the Minister of 
Agriculture, a commission is charged to examine into the state of 
legislation as it affects the teaching and practising of veterinary 
medicine in France, with the view of proposing such modifications 
as may seem proper, it appears to us important that the public 
should have laid before them the objects of the projet de loi 
touching the practice of veterinary medicine which had been pre- 
pared by the old administration, but which had had, from year to 
year, its presentation and discussion before the legislative cham- 
bers deferred. 
