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head, and yet he did not resume breathing. I about con¬ 
cluded that it would be unnecessary to amputate his tail, for 
a dead setter whose caudal extremity is intact is about as val¬ 
uable for hunting-purposes as one that has been relieved of 
that portion of his anatomy. But I opened my case, and from 
the aqua ammonia bottle I poured a few drops into my 
patient’s mouth, when, to my delight, he began to breathe 
and I proceeded to cut off his tail. This, no doubt, was very 
close to a fatal result; but at that time I had not had much 
experience in the use of anassthetics, and I consider the 
trouble was due to a fault of mine, and not to the anaesthetic. 
I am satisfied that one should not be in too great a hurry in 
anaesthetizing dogs, in order to grant them the greatest 
degree of safety. In all other animals I have used chloro¬ 
form, so that I am not well prepared to discuss the compara¬ 
tive value of the different anaesthetic agents. 
In my experience with cats, which is rather limited, I 
have found that chloroform acts nicely. I have chloroformed 
them for castration, stitching wounds, removing foreign bod¬ 
ies and decayed teeth from the mouth, etc., and simply use a 
little cotton-batting saturated with the agent, being careful 
not to hold it too close to the nose. In hogs I have adminis¬ 
tered chloroform for such operations as gastro-hysterotomy ; 
castration of cryptorchids; operations for diseased scrotum, 
resulting from improper castration; scrotal hernia; removal 
of tumors, etc. In giving the chloroform, I use cotton-bat¬ 
ting without any muzzle or sac, and I find that hogs take it 
very nicely if they are given a little air during the adminis¬ 
tration. 
During the last summer two hogs that I was operating on 
under anaesthesia died, and I regret that I did not make post 
mortem examinations to ascertain, if possible, the cause of 
death. The first was a boar that weighed about eighty 
pounds, and had a large scrotal hernia. An assistant caught 
him where he was running with others, and pulled him by the 
leg several rods to a shed where the operation was performed. 
I gave the chloroform, and, after a struggle or two, the hog 
became quiet, and I took the anaesthetic from his nose and 
