How to kill animals humanely / by D.D. Slade.

  • Daniel Denison Slade
Date:
1879
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Credit: How to kill animals humanely / by D.D. Slade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    In most instances, so great and instantaneous is the shock to the brain from a bullet that death follows instantly. A shot-gun loaded with buck-shot is effectual and may often be more conveniently procured. 3. By Chloroform.—Procure a common feed- bag or small sack made of thick cotton cloth, or of any sufficiently strong material, provided with strings or a strap to i'asten over the head, and at the bottom of this place a large sponge or a yard of flannel folded to the size of eight inches square. The sponge or flannel is to be saturated with chloroform and the bag adjusted. If the suffoca- tion and consequent struggling, which at first attend the administration of anaesthetics,'are very great, the application of the chloroform may be gradual, the animal being allowed to respire the outward air for a moment, until these effects pass off. As it is by the exclusion of common air, however, that death is produced, the more per- sistently the administration of the chloroform is kept up, the more speedy will be the desired result. The dose requisite varies very much according to circumstances. At least sixteen ounces of chloroform should be procured, and it should be freshly applied through a small slit in the bag every few minutes until death ensues, which will be from five to ten or fifteen minutes after the beginning of the operation. The difficulties attending the administration of chloroform to so large and powerful an animal as the horse, particularly at the hands of the inex- perienced, render its use less applicable than either of the other methods. In cases where sick- ness and consequent debility have reduced the animal and made him less capable of struggling, is to be killed, and the owner is unwilling that the deadly blow shall be struck, chloroform may be resorted to, but, as a general rule, we do not recommend its use where the normal amount of strength still remains. purpose, or where a pet horse
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