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mare physic, and used a zinc injection with the patent enema 

 syringe ; and after the physic had quite set, administered a 

 ball, daily, composed of 5ij of Ferri Sulphas ; half a drachm 

 of Zingiber and Gentian ; Pulv. Conii and Mass. Com., 

 a drachm and a half each ; with sufficient Copaiba to form a 

 ball : a ball I can strongly recommend for imitation. 



This treatment, increasing the injections in quantity, was 

 persevered in for two months, when she was perfectly restored 

 to health, and has so remained. Previous to convalescence, 

 the discharge turned white and ^^eZ/wcic?, then gradually 

 disappeared. 



Scirrhous Tumour upon the Vulva. — The Compte 

 Rendu of the Transactions of the Veterinary School at Lyons, 

 for the session 1837-8, contains the following remarkable 

 case : 



A draught mare, employed in farming, six years old, that had never 

 bred, exhibited a carcinomatous enlargement growing in the inferior 

 commissure of her vulva, which had existed for two years. It being in 

 a state of inflammation, she kicked violently when it was meddled with ; 

 and what with the irritation of the urine, the brushing of the tail upon 

 it, and the pungency of the remedies that had been applied, the tumour 

 had been rendered greater. When first brought to the school, the swell- 

 ing measured two inches across, and had irregular, indurated, fetid 

 ulcerations upon it. Simple treatment with lotions appeared to stay its 

 progress for a time ; but on her second visit, six months afterwards, the 

 tumour was found to occupy at least two thirds of the entire vulva, and 

 had assumed the aspect of schirrus, beset with tubercles and ulcers. To 

 do any good in this state, excision of at least two thirds of the labia be- 

 came necessary. The mammary glands were found to have partaken of 

 the schirrous action. They were rubbed with mercurial and iodine 

 ointment. Ill-conditioned purulent discharges succeeded the operation ; 

 the appetite began to fail ; loss of flesh followed, with dropsical swellings 

 of the legs and belly ; and the local affection was becoming cancerous : 

 she was in consequence destroyed. 



Post-mortem. — The vaginal membrane deeply reddened and atrophied : 

 an incision through it discovered a lardaceous tissue, studded with tu- 

 bercles, with some surrounding infiltration. The mammary glands were 

 in the first stage towards schirrus. This case shows how long a cancer- 

 ous aflection may exist in, and confine itself to, one spot; for it was in 

 the last stage only that this spread to the udder. 



