THE USE OP NARCOTICS IN PAINFUL OPERATIONS. 
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gram, morph, hydrochlor. He next throws the animal, and then 
uses the narcotics. Out of the many methods of etherizing he 
uses the following: 
He places a cloth under the upper lip, turns it over the ons- 
trils and pours on the chloroform and ether. He has usedthis 
method ten years with the most gratifying results. The use of 
sponges, the Doctor says is always associated with a great amount 
of struggling, and invariably a nasal catarrh follows that 
method. The average amount to chloroform a horse is 100 gr., 
and especially, as mentioned before, if an injection of morphine 
preceded. In the two hundred mentioned cases, he never had 
any bad effects from its use. He always excludes heart-disease, 
very fat horses, and analmia in his use of narcotics. He is very 
particular that nothing prevents the free respiration. In case of 
any irregularity in breathing, he stops the chloroform, and uses 
artificial respiration, and dashes cold water over the head. This 
method has always proved satisfactory. A second narcotic is 
meutioned by him, namely the chloralhydrate, but in his experi¬ 
ence it never produces complete ansethesia. It was used in the 
following manner: From 100 gr. to 160 gr. in flaxseed de¬ 
coction and injected into the rectum. He followed the advice of 
Cardeac and Malet, and combined the morphine with it, and used 
it as follows: 
First the morphine injection. Then from 70 to 80 gr. chloral- 
hydrate injected per rectum with the flaxseed decoction. He 
used this with satisfactory results on over thirty horses, but posi¬ 
tively states that he never produced complete anesthesia with 
chloralhydrate and morphine as he did with chloroform and 
ether. Nevertheless, he advised the use of chloral in such cases 
where chloroform and ether are dangerous. He closes with em¬ 
phasis and appeals to humanity, that we, as veterinarians, should 
make more use of narcotics than we have done. The esteem and 
elevation of our profession can thereby only be obtained .—Der 
Thierarz. 
