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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1901, 1 June 1892, Page 3

The old-fashijned style of roping and throwing horses when delicate operations had to be performed is likely to be relegated to the barbarous days of long, long ago. Thai the ordeal of virtually tying a horse in a knot with a rope, placing it in side-irons and various other contrivances is absolute cruelty there need be no question. But no alternative suggested itself until recently, when science with her gentle hand stepped in and revealed the truth to Mr A. E. Hollingham, M.K.C.V.S., that all that was required to accomplish any painful treatment was the administering of a dose of chloroform. Mr Hollingham tried the experiment on two horses in Victoria last week, each of whom was bad tempered. The inhalation occupied four or five minutes, and by the time the animals had recovered their senses the operations were over without any pain, and so far as could be imagined, without the animals being aware of what had happened*