504 DISEASES OF THE URINARY ORGANS. 



some to break, liad experienced very rough usage, and been hard ridden. 

 There was a " peculiar stiffness in the movement of the hind legs ; urine 

 of a high colour and pungent smell, and a dribbling of urine from the 

 penis for some time after staling." By venesection, clysters, fomenta- 

 tions, &c., he got sufficiently well to be sent to grass. He there leaped 

 over a gate, which caused a return of his complaint ; and Mr. Mogford 

 was sent for again, and found him in the same state as before. This time 

 Mr. Mogford examined the bladder through the rectum, and felt a hard 

 substance which appeared to be a stone ; in which opinion he was con- 

 firmed by Mr. Fisher, a surgeon of Hatherleigh. The following opera- 

 tion was performed : a whalebone rod was passed through the penis ; the 

 end of which, felt in the perinaeum, was cut down upon, and through the 

 opening thus made a director was introduced, " and with a probe-pointed 

 bistoury the opening was continued as far as the left side of the anus." 

 Mr. Mogford " then introduced his right hand into the rectum, and the 

 two fore fingers of his left hand into the bladder, and without any diffi- 

 culty pushed the stone against the middle finger, by which he guided it 

 to the neck of the bladder, and then easily forced it out through the 

 opening in the urethra. The stone weighed four and a half ounces. 



These cases are, chronologicallj^^, followed by others occur- 

 ring to Messrs. Sewell, Dick, Taylor, and Robinson. Mr. 

 SewelFs — the late Professor^s — case stands remarkable 

 in our annals for having been sent to the College of Phy- 

 sicians, notwithstanding there were at the time of its occur- 

 rence two veterinary journals, as well as two veterinary 

 societies, in existence; for which unfortunate predilection 

 the physicians made the sad return of taking no more notice 

 of the case than they would have done of any other horse or 

 veterinary affair, and for which disregard of his own profes- 

 sion Mr. Sewell brought upon himself the censure of both 

 veterinary journals and societies, as well as that, I am afraid, 

 of a host of practitioners besides. 



Mr. Sewell's patient was a horse belonging to the Hon. G. A. Broderick, 

 twelve years old, that had been hunted for seven seasons, and up to the 

 period of his admission into the Veterinary College. He had for some 

 months passed very high-coloured and turbid urine, mixed occasionally 

 with blood, and had expressed great pain in the acts. Aperients and 

 light diet relieved, but work brought back his complaints. Suspecting 

 calculus, Mr. Sewell examined the bladder per rectum, and " distinctly 

 felt a firm roundish substance at the neck of the bladder, which was 



