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fatal are attended with as much pain as in any operation that can 
be performed, only in one we have the pain extending over half 
an hour, while in the other extending over, it may be, several 
hours. If, then, we agree in condemning pain as the cause of 
death in bowel disease, it is clear that it ought to receive our 
earliest attention. 
Before describing the mode of giving the morphia and chloro¬ 
form, allow me to narrate a case in point, the like of which you 
will all agree usually proves fatal. 
One Sunday last March I saw a horse, about four miles from 
here, about one o'clock at noon. He was down on a large bed 
of straw outside the stable. He was an aged brown horse—age 
probably twenty—in fair working condition. At seven o'clock 
that morning he began to be uneasy, and this increased until he 
was so frantic with pain, that they made a large bed for him out¬ 
side the stable. He was not swollen in the body, the visible 
mucous membranes were not much injected; his pulse was about 
60, and very good; his temperature was 101^°; his breathing 
was 25; and he looked a good deal at his flanks. Here was a 
clear case of obstipation, which would most likely, in spite of 
me, run on to inflammation of the gut at the obstruction, and kill 
the horse within twenty-four hours. I first gave him suitable 
remedies to remove the obstruction, such as a brisk aloetic purge 
in a fluid form, &c.; then I injected, subcutaneously, twelve 
grains of muriate of morphia, and, in fifteen minutes after, put 
him to sleep with a few draws of chloroform (inhaled). I left 
two ounces of chloroform, some to be given, if requisite, by the 
mouth. 
I saw the horse next morning. He was still down, looked fre¬ 
quently at his flanks. Pulse 90, and wiry; temperature 106°, 
and with the remainder of the symptoms of enteritis. He was 
treated as on the previous day, nearly. 
On the third day (Tuesday) he was still down, and with tem¬ 
perature and pulse no worse, but no better than on the previous 
day. The chloroform with morphia was kept up, and so on. 
On the fourth day, at noon (Wednesday), he rose and was 
purged (the faeces being most offensive). After being nursed for 
a fortnight he was very well, but still weak; then he regained 
his usual strength and flesh. Here this horse would be half un¬ 
conscious during that stage of the disease which kills. The 
medicine had time to remove the obstruction during this bridging 
over of the painful stage. 
And now as to the modus operandi. About two years and a 
half ago it was discovered simultaneously by Mr. T. Pridgin 
Teale, of this town, and another surgeon—I forget who—that when 
morphia is in the system a much smaller amount of chloroform is 
