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memory, and said.: “Give me time enough and I can answer 
any question you can ask me.” 
“Do you understand what an anaesthetic is ?” 
The witness was silent, and evidently did not. 
“Do you understand that there is a communication between 
the ear and the stomach?” 
He had found that there was a communication between the 
ear of a horse and his stomach, and had cured many of them of 
colic by pouring the liniment into their ears. 
He had put liniment in horses’ ears for the purpose of making 
them shake themselves and start the wind in case of colic. 
Arthur S. Jordan and Joseph F. Small, of Cape Elizabeth, 
Me.; Charles L. Robinson, of Portland, Me.; George C. Place, 
of Cape Elizabeth, Me.; William H. Wentworth, of Scarboro, 
Me.; Ellis Maxwell, of Portland, Me., and William Ramsdell, 
of Deering, Me., all testified that they had used the red liniment, 
and that it did not blister, and that they had seen it put in 
horse’s ears, and that it did not blister, but did cure the colic. 
After the closing arguments and the judge’s charge, the jury 
were out but a few moments and brought in a verdict of “not 
guilty .”—Portland (Me.) Press . 
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We have received, a short time ago, the news of the death 
of Dr. George B. Burchsted, of New York City, which took 
place in St. Luke’s Hospital, New York City. Dr. Burchsted 
was suffering with diabetes since a long time. He graduated at 
the American Veterinary College, class of 1891. He originally 
came from Providence, R. I. 
