This paper described a homemade ether vaporizer, changed from WAYNFORTH & FLECKNELL model for small animals. The device is build with hospital material and products bought in aquarium’s shops. Their advantages are maintenance of anesthetic level without successive "inductions" by inhalatory nasal ether ; ether consumption of 5 ml per hour in animals with 300 g ; smaller ambient pollution and small cost. The disadvantages are a hardness and reduction of the plastic tubes after approximately 150 hour in use, by ether action and the necessity of experience acquisition in anesthetic manipulation with the device
Home made
