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York, the requirements for the degree, preliminary education, 
matriculation, etc., together with an official letter in reference 
to salaried positions under the Bureau of Animal Industry, and 
notes of other desirable posts awaiting qualified men. No im¬ 
portant changes are noted in the faculty, nor in the general 
course of instruction. For catalogue, address the Dean, H. D. 
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THE ANESTHETIC USES OF CHEOROFORM AND COCAINE. 
Kankakee, III., Aug. 16 , 1897 . 
Editors American Veterinary Review : 
In an excellent and carefully prepared paper on “Anaes¬ 
thesia,” by Dr. V. Torrance, which appeared in the August num- 
hea of the Review, he states that chloroform can be safely ad¬ 
ministered to the lower animals as an anaesthetic without the 
aid of an inhaler. I can fully bear out the correctness of this 
assertion, because for many years I have used chloroform as an 
anaesthetic without any ill effects by simply pouring it on a 
sponge or folded napkin, held to the nostrils and lightly covered 
with a towel or rug. By this method I have seen profound 
anaesthesia produced in a few minutes on a powerful draft stallion, 
weighing nearly a ton. I further agree with Dr. Torrance, in 
preferring chloroform to ether as an anaesthetic for the larger 
animals, because it is often utterly impossible to prodiice anaes¬ 
thesia in horses or cattle with ether. I have seen a pint of C. 
P. ether administered by inhalation to a three-year-old colt with¬ 
out producing the slightest anaesthetic effect. In regard to ad¬ 
ministering chloroform to horses by inhalation standing, my ex¬ 
perience has taught me that the quickest and safest way is to 
oast and securely tie the animal before administering the drug. 
I have- seen horses become fairly frantic and break away from 
.all restraint, endangering their own lives and the lives of their 
attendants, when attempts were made to chloroform them 
■Standing. 
As to measuring the amount of chloroform to be administered 
to horses for anaesthetic purposes, I think this is very essential; 
for by doing so we are not so apt to get serious chloroform nar- 
•■cosis, a condition which can be easily produced in the horse. 
It is rarely necessary to use over two ounces of the drug in or- 
<iinary surgical operations, and sometimes even less than this is 
.•sufficient. Chloroform for inhalation purposes should, if pos- 
