Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-12-22

box. These come entirely from the COM
mission merchants who receive them from
the country. The farmers or country gro
cers seem to,have limited sensibilities to the
suffering of animals. Often they pack so
many fowls into a coop that by the time
it reaches New York some have broken
legs, while others are so sick or so badly
torn from the sharp claws of their fellow
tenants that they are not fit to live longer.
The officers of the society seize these and
bring them to the box. Eleven with bro
ken legs and torn flesh were killed in one
day last week.
The society also comes into possessionpf1
many animals of all kinds which may be
saved to usefulness and profit. These it
sends to the Veterinary hospital at III
West Twenty-ffth street. A veterinary
hospital is curious place, it has SO many
points of resemblance to human hospital,
and yet there are so many points in which
it is a caricature.
The apothecary shop is indifferent from
those which are known by the big colored
jars. There is even a mortar of the same
size, but there is also another mortar which
would be called dishpan in any other
place. a horse will take medicine in doses
from ten to fifty times greater than the
doses required for the same ailment in
human being. A dog takes doses of the
same size as full-grown man, while n cat
requires almost homeopathic doses in
many cases.
Yesterday afternoon horse with q collie
was led into this particular hospital. He
was shaking a good deal, and every now
and then, as twinge of especial violence
| took him he would jump around as though
some one were whipping him. "He needs
dose of chloral," !" said DR.. johnson. The
II sntn hn 81,
| and put small handful, about two ounces,
| of granulated white substance on bit of
| tissue paper. He rolled it up into a
l sort of cylinder and then put another piece
| of paper around it. He twisted the ends,
| and then had something that looked not
l unlike gun cartridge or a French favor
without the gaudy colors. 1t was two in
| ches long by three-quarters of an inch in
l diameter.
| Hewent back to the colicky horse, ,stroked
its nose a few times, forced open his
mouth, caught hold of his tongue with his
| right hand, and pressed it against the roof
l of the mouth SO that the teeth could not
close on his hand. He had before loosed
his shirt sleeve So that the arm was bare
to the elbow. He now ran this arm into
4 the horses mouth until it was concealed to
the elbow. He drew it out. The capsule
was gone. He had put it so far back that
II the morse laQ TO 1t.
/ Another horse had to have his teeth
filed, because they were so rough that they
l cut it's tongue. This operation was per-
formed by means of a huge eslender-pronged
l monkey wrench, which the surgeon called
l q spectroscope. When the animals mouth
| was stretched wide Surgeon Warner ran n
l great file far back into it and began to
l scrape as though he were saving piece of
iron. This was repeated until the teeth
l were smooth.
/ In the stables were horses of all stages
Il of sickness. Several were lying down,
Il while several others were supported in
l slings like canvas hammocks. These latter
had broken legs or hips and could hurt
l themselves if they tried to lay down. The
l only time that anethetics are used on hors-
es is when they wish to kill them humane
ly. All surgical operations are performed
/ by simply tying the horse, and it is sell
/ dom necessary to do even that. ''They
have lots of sense" said the surgeon, land
they seem to know what you are going to
l do" Formerly operating tables were used,
| but all this has been abandoned now, as it
is much more convenient for both patient
| and operator for the animal to lie upon
1 the ground.
1 Up stairs in this hospital are kennels for
dogs and cages for cats and birds. Dogs
/ also seem to have n good deal of sense
/ about taking medicine, and seldom have to
be coerced. Even the ugliest patients
| show a disposition to let the doctor have
his way. But with cats its different
''Cats are terrible" observed one of the
1 assistants as he prepared to give a large
| tom with disordered stomach n dose OF
| castor oil. One man got piece of sacking
about feet long by 3 feet wide. Another
caught the cat by the back of the head.
l Then they laid it on the saeking, which had
4 1s.sI &nlx
men tucked his paws up against his breast,
while third held its body. The fourth
man held the sacking. All four began to
roll it around the cat. A small dog
stood near by and watched the proceedings
| with ears cooking back and forth and STUN
py tail wagging. When the cat rolled over
and saw the delighted dog it gave a scream
| startlingly like shrieking child, and man.
aged to scratch two men and bite the third.
But finally it was securely wrapped, with
nothing sticking out but his head, with
blazing eyes and open, ,impotent mouth and
| tail as big around as a drain pipe. One
man could not hold it. Another tied a
| piece of tape about the upper jaw and an
| other piece about the lower jaw. In this
| way the mouth was held wide open, and
the capsule was forced down.
| Some time ago the S. P. C. A. bought a
1 pigeon whose craw had been shot away. 1t
Il oelonScu 70 ooy, anu ne pleaueu SO nara
that the officers took it to the hospital.
They stretched the skin and stitched it to
| piece of the old craw so that two pieces
l grew together. The cure was complete,
| and the birds food no more entered its
mouth to drop out of its throat.
Many curious and difficult operations are
performed, not only for the society, but
for people generally. More than one work
ingman owes the life of his apparently
worthless horse to these operations, and
many a pet has been saved for it's owner.
Unless an animal is of some value the So
ciety does not so to this trouble and ex-
peuse. Among the operations performed
is amputation. A number of women have
brought cats or dogs there to have a
leg amputated. On the free day the work,
ing people bring their animals, useful and
otherwise, and free day is the busiest day
/ of fha vvaaly