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RICHARD MIDDLETON. 
pain and at times very restless. The treatment was directed 
to relieve pain in particular. 
Another visit was made on the 2d, and an examination 
made per rectum. 
The same shaped organ met the hand as in the above case, 
though not so large. This was filled with hardened fasces. 
The treatment in this case was not so easily determined 
upon as in the mule. He was given a good physic ball and 
put on light sloppy food. When the bladder became distended 
so that the pressure of the coecum with its contents would 
cause the animal to be uneasy, we would draw the urine and 
the animal would be quiet again until it refilled. With four 
days of laxative treatment, the horse resumed his usual work. 
THE INDUCTION OF NARCOSIS IN HORSES. 
Translated from tlie German by Richard Middleton, A.B., D.Y.S., Stuttgart, 
Germany. 
I have, for the purpose of performing operations in our 
surgical clinics, anmstheticized numerous horses and other 
large animals. From this experience I am in a position to state 
that the widely diffused view of the danger accompanying 
this undertaking is utterly false. Ten years previous I 
pointed out this error, and at that time considered, in con¬ 
secutive order, the causes which led to such a view. My late 
results have only corroborated these statements. 
Statistical minutes were made of all these cases, and the 
length of time until the appearance of insensibility, together 
with the quantity of the agent used, were exactly noted; in 
like manner were the race, age, sex and weight of each indi¬ 
vidual registered. Since I have no knowledge of like statis¬ 
tics, I will therefore place before the profession an average of 
the cases, and therewith a description of the method. 
With one hundred and twenty-six horses narcotized, 
(thirty-one stallions, thirty-eight mares, fifty-seven geldings), 
it required on an average, twenty minutes up to the period of 
cessation of corneal reflex before complete unconsciousness 
appeared, and three and one-half ounces of chloroform, or six 
