[Effect of average-duration ether anesthesia on the behavior and clinical indices of dogs]. / Vliianie na sredno produlzhitelnata eterna anesteziia vurkhu povedenieto i niakoi klinichni pokazateli pri kucheto.

The investigations made use of ten clinically normal dogs which were subjected to an overall ether intubation anaesthesia with no surgical intervention, with the preliminary medication of a mixture of morphine and atropine applied subcutaneously. In the surgical phase (III)3 after Guedel there was full relaxation of muscles; full absence of the eye and the unconditional reflexes; downward rotation of the eye-balls; covering of the cornea up to one/third by the nictitating membrane; decrease in the lacrimal secretion and drying up of the cornea; lack of response at surgical intervention or at pricking with a needle in the interdigital space. The postnarcotic sleep continued 3-4 hours. The dogs came back to normal on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th day after anaesthesia.