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fraction. He gave down in the tendons oi both forward limbs, 
and was put in the stud for a few years, until reverses came to 
his owner, and he was sold by the sheriff to the highest bidder. 
He was bought by a trainer and brought to our town to be used 
on the track again, but soon gave way in his weak parts, so 
that on June 14th I was requested to fire him; I made a cocaine 
solution (gr. viii to 100 minims of water, always measuring with 
hypodermic syringe). This was injected over the tendons and 
back of the knees. This solution never failed in any other case 
for the same operation. He never became insensible to any 
test, not even to the touch of the finger. 
So the owner wanted me to chloroform him. I procured 
3 xi, and threw him the same as in castration. Made a nose¬ 
bag, funnel-shaped, and used in it a large sponge. We tried to 
give him oxygen at one nostril and chloroform at the other, but 
this seemed not to work well, so the bag was put over both 
nostrils, and in due time the chloroform was all used up, and he 
was as wide awake as ever, although he had fought manfully all 
the time, and would squeal as if fighting another horse. Then 
we thought to fire him while he was secured. By mismanage¬ 
ment the benzine bottle of the thermo-cautery was broken, so 
he was liberated and he sprang to his feet and seemed to feel 
fresh; he began to eat grass with a relish. 
Next day I gave a ball of chloral-hydrate, 3 vi, and threw 
him and finished the job, the chloral affecting him but slightly. 
A few days afterward, the groom who had charge of him all 
through his campaign life came to see him and told me he had 
been cocained and etherized repeatedly to assist him through 
his hard races, and at no time had he been benefited in the 
least. 
The second case was a small saddle-bred mare, 15 hands 
high, weight about 1020 pounds, a pacer, suffering from cartila¬ 
ginous quittor of about twelve months’ standing, with four fistu¬ 
lous openings. She being in foal, I preferred to operate stand¬ 
ing, so I injected a solution made of 10 grains of cocaine to 100 
minims of water, without the slightest effect. Having my as- 
