416 . DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. 



a very simple one, which, so far as his knowledge afterwards 

 went, proved effectual. He procured a pair of glove-sticks 

 (such as used by hosiers), and gently introduced their points, 

 oiled, about an inch or more into the rectum, underneath 

 the tumours, which then rested upon them. Then, pressing 

 the handles, the tumour receded with the dilatation. This 

 he persevered in for four days, applying, at the same time, 

 continually, cold water to the parts. In four days more the 

 mare seemed quite recovered of her grievance. I only gave 

 a slight aperient at first; afterwards keeping the bowels 

 soluble with food. " The mare being sold shortly after- 

 wards, Mr. W. lost sight of her;" so that whether there 

 took place any return or not, he is unable to say, " but 

 thought such an occurrence not improbable." 



Another case, similar to the last, came to ^ The Veteri- 

 narian,^ in 1849 (in the xxii vol. of which it will be 

 found) from Mr. Collins, V.S., of the 16th, Queen^s Lancers. 

 A grey (troop) mare was sent into barracks from off the 

 drill-ground " in consequence of the sudden appearance of a 

 tumour, protruding from the anus,'about the size of a swan's 

 egg, of a bright scarlet colour," which Mr. Collins found 

 to be " firmly attached to the inferior portion of the rectum, 

 about an inch beyond the sphincter ani." Mr. Collins 

 gave an opinion, and had the tumour examined'. Three 

 days after, there being '^ no alteration in the tumour," Mr. 

 Smith, V.S., Norwich, was consulted, and an operation was 

 determined on. On further examination, after the mare was 

 cast, of the tumour, it was found " to be attached, for the 

 space of three inches, to the mucous membrane of the gut, 

 by a broad expansion of its external covering, which appeared 

 to consist of mucous membrane of an abnormal character, 

 separated from the healthy (portion of the membrane) by an 

 irregular line of demarcation. It was firm and unyielding." 

 Incision into its substance disclosed it to be filled with 

 fibrine, ^' exactly resembling the fibrine of the blood." Mr. 

 Collins carried the incision through it, " down to its root, 

 and passed a ligature around the base of each portion.'* 

 But little hemorrhage followed outwardly, though '^ there 



