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of death, before the remedy was administered; but she imme¬ 
diately arose, and the swelling* ceased in both of them in a very 
short time. Soon afterwards I administered the chloruret to 
four sheep under the same circumstances, and obtained the same 
result. 
The chlorurets are always preferable to ammonia for sheep, 
not only on account of their greater efficacy, but because the 
latter medicine often occasions great irritation in the pharynx, 
and thus a portion of the liquid is forced into the pharynx, and 
the animal is suffocated. 
I long confined the administration of the chlorurets to ruminants, 
deeming the meteorisation of the horse to be incurable, or at 
least beyond the reach of such a remedy. Beside, I had not 
analysed the intestinal gas of the horse; and the accumulation 
of gas in this animal being principally in the large intestines, 
I thought that the chloruret, in passing through the stomach 
and small intestines, would be decomposed before it reached 
that portion of the alimentary canal which was distended by the 
gas. Experience, however, has proved to me that I was wrong’. 
I had gfiven to my father, who lived in the country, a bottle of 
the solution of the chloruret of potash, to be used for ruminants 
alone. A mule, however, of one of his neighbours having* 
violent cholic, and being much swelled, and seemingly dying’, 
he gave two spoonfuls of the solution in a bottle of cold water; 
in a few minutes the swelling at the flank began to subside. The 
dose was repeated, and the animal completely relieved. 
As soon as I became acquainted with the fact, I recommended 
the use of the chloruret in tympanitis in the solipede. MM. 
Simoneau and Gar non adopted it with great success. 
On July 25, 1830, a horse belonging to M. Ouchette, having 
eaten too much new hay. began rapidly to swell, and exhibited 
much pain. Two spoonfuls of the solution were given to him, and 
he was immediately relieved. 
On August the 11th, a horse belonging to M. Blanchet, after 
having suffered from indigestion and colic, began to swell, but 
was presently relieved by the chloruret. 
November the 8th, M. Joineau consulted me respecting one of 
his horses, attacked by colic; the consequence of indigestion. I 
gave him an ounce of the solution in cold water, and soon after¬ 
wards repeated the dose, and he was cured. 
I then made some experiments on the effect of the chloruret 
on the horse in health, to ascertain whether danger was to be 
apprehended from its administration. I gave twelve ounces to 
an old horse without any serious inconvenience resulting; but 
