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I was brought to the sad but imposing obligation to destroy him. 
I chloroformed him—one of the most painful acts of my loim 
veterinary experience. 
. M y diagnosis of angina pectoris, due to cardiac affection, 
was confirmed by the post-mortem examination I made of him’ 
With a perfectly healthy anatomy, his heart was hypertrofied 
nearly twice as big as normal size ; the walls of the right 
ventricle were soft and flabby and the valves of the two auriculo- 
ventricular openings the seat of comparatively large o-ranular 
deposits. 
BARIUM CHUORIDE. 
By Robert W. Ellis, D.V.S., New York City. 
Having read several scientific articles on the use of barium 
chloride, in the veterinary journals recently, none of which 
seeming to positively recommend its use heartily in every day 
practice, but all seeming rather chary about so doing, and hav¬ 
ing met several of my confreres who seem to have so profound 
a respect for it as to leave it severely alone and be quite content 
with talking about it, I feel as though a few words as to its 
practical use would not be amiss, and might encourage the few 
who have not already adopted its use, to do so. 
Having used barium chloride on about three dozen cases of 
flatulent colic of the worst order (those met with in large draft 
horses) and on quite a number of cases of milder form^among 
the lighter order of business horses, with uniform success, and 
not having a single result from it to regret (although on many 
occasions almost no opportunities for asepsis were practicable) I 
feel that I cannot speak too well of it. 
As I find occasion to use it almost every day at least once 
and sometimes several times, I carry with me at all times four 
drachms of a twenty-five per cent, solution, so that when occa¬ 
sion demands its use, I can, without delay, inject one drachm 
into the jugular, having first (if the time and the position of the 
patient permits) clipped and antiseptized the seat of injection * 
if, on the other hand, neither time nor the patient’s position per¬ 
mits of the more thorough process of clipping and cleansing, I 
simply saturate the hair over the seat of injection with a mild 
carbolic solution before injecting. 
While I thoroughly appreciate the fact that it is a veteri¬ 
narian s duty to his patient, his client and himself to exercise 
cleanliness on all occasions, and to conduct all operative pro¬ 
cedures (no matter how simple) as nearly on aseptic principles 
