HAEMORRHOIDS OR PILES. 415 



tained in ' The Veterinarian/ the alleged disease would 

 not have met with a place at all in Hippopathology. Neither 

 Blaine nor Youatt notice such a disease in horses ; though 

 the latter assures us that it is frequent enough among dogs. 

 His words are — " Dogs are very subject to piles/^^ Among 

 the French Veterinarian authors, Gohier and Debeaux have 

 both described the disease ; and from their works princi- 

 pally has Hurtrel d'Arboval copied his account of it. 

 I have no recollection of ever having seen a horse with piles 

 myself; but in 1852 was sent a case of " Hemorrhoids in 

 the Horse/^ to ' The Veterinarian/ which will be found 

 recorded in vol. xxv of that journal, from which I take 

 the subjoined curtailed account : 



In March, 1851, Mr. Wells, M.E.C.V.S., Norwich, was 

 sent for in a hurry to see a carriage mare, reported to 

 have been observed for two days before having ^' some- 

 thing bloody^^ hanging out of the rectum. This something 

 was said to make its appearance two or three times a day 

 after dunging, but had uniformly returned again of itself 

 up to the present occasion. Mr. Wells found the mare in 

 pain, switching or lashing her tail, and stamping with her 

 hind feet. The case first struck him to be one of pi^olapsus 

 ani, but " proved to be a true case of piles/' The tumour, 

 about the size of an egg, "presented the appearance of a 

 pilous grape in the human subject, only, of course, much 

 larger.^-' Owing to the constriction of the sphincter ani 

 around it, Mr. Wells had some difficulty in returning it; 

 but as soon as he effected this, the mare was relieved from 

 pain. Mr. Wells anticipated a return of the gut; nor was 

 he deceived, for on being removed to his infirmary, and 

 dunging, out it came again. Further examination dis- 

 covered small tumours situated around and proximate 

 to the large one ; though the large one Avas all that pro- 

 truded outside. It was returned again, and again pro- 

 truded, doing so after every dunging. 



Reflecting on the case, Mr. Wells foresaw trouble and 

 difficulty about the treatment ; and yet at length hit upon 

 ' ' Canine Pathology/ 4th and last edition, p. 165. 



