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RECTAL ETHERIZATION. 
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By M. Cagny. 
This experiment was made on a horse. 
A tube Pasteur similar to those used to keep vaccine for cliar- 
bon w T as employed, containing thirty grammes of ether. At its 
mouth an india rubber tube was secured, with a smooth round 
canula. The tube was placed in a vase containing warm water, 
the heat of which stimulated the evaporation of the ether; in a 
few r minutes the animal was sufficiently brought under the influ¬ 
ence of anasthesia without any of the symptoms of excitement 
observed in cases of etherization by the nose. 
In this experiment, the animal standing up, the canula and 
the india rubber tube was placed in the rectum ; in a few mo¬ 
ments the sphincter of the anus was less contracted; the tail pow¬ 
erless, the eyes had lost their bright expression, the animal 
seemed ready to fall asleep. The assistant at the head claimed 
to have already smelled the oder of ether, and at that moment 
the animal was safely thrown down and secured. In this case 
the anaesthesia is said to have been sufficient to allow the animal 
to be operated for a keraphyllocele, and to be dressed afterwards 
without being obliged to have recourse to the fixing of the legs, 
as is generally required in similar cases. 
TRAUMATIC GANGRENE OF THE TONGUE. 
By M. Barrier. 
The entire free or anterior portion of the tongue of a dog be¬ 
came gangrenous under a most singular and probably unique con¬ 
dition. It was due to the stricture produced by a portion of the 
posterior aorta of a horse, which the animal had torn from a piece 
of meat given to him for food. The elastic ligature had allowed 
the introduction of the tongue through the ring that it formed, 
and had, by its natural elasticity, compressed—strangulated, 
so to speak—its anterior or free portion. That part had become 
swollen, oedematous and gangrenous, and the careful examina¬ 
tion of the diseased part had failed to expose the cause. The 
elastic band, which was deeply imbedded in the tissues, which it 
had already cut nearly through, was not discovered until the ex¬ 
amination made at the autopsy .—Recueil de Med. Vet. 
