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was also large, still remained so, and without any announcements of 

 foaling being near. For some years she did her work excellently well, 

 when all on a sudden she was seized with violent colics, from which she 

 died in less than six hours. An encysted tumour of the left ovary occut 

 pied a great part of the cavity of the abdomen, where it had contracted 

 adhesions Avith the omentum. This tumour, weighing forty-six pounds, 

 slightly flattened above and below, presented a bright red surface and 

 rounded borders, and contained some clots of blood, and a large quantity 

 of granulous, inodorous liquid, of the colour of wine-lees. Its parietes, 

 which were mostly fibro-cartilaginous, were in some places osseous. A 

 false membrane, two or three lines in thickness, lined its cavity, which 

 was covered with a red matter, looking like the sediment of the liquid 

 within. The right ovary was triple its ordinary volume. 



5. Violent colics seized during the night an aged mare, who died the 

 following morning. The left ovary had become changed into an en- 

 cysted tumour, weighing twenty-eight pounds, with Its capsule, and was 

 ruptured to the extent of about eight centimetres. Considerable hemor- 

 rhage had taken place Into the abdominal cavity. The contents of the 

 tumour were a grayish odourless matter, 



6. A mare, nine years of age, suddenly attacked with sharp colic, died 

 In the space of a few hours. The abdominal viscera were found bathed 

 in blood, and the right ovary was converted into an encysted tumour of 

 the weight of 24 lbs. The fibrous covering of the tumour, thickened in 

 places, presented a rupture through which the blood had escaped. 



7. A mare, eleven years old, had been ill for some hours, manifesting 

 all the signs of slight enteritis — pawing and looking at her belly, and 

 lying down — with a pulse hard and but little accelerated, and much 

 fuller than it ordinarily is in abdominal affections, and a troublesome 

 tenesmus, which caused violent straining and the discharge of a consider- 

 able quantity of mucous matter. In spite of all treatment the colic 

 continued for two days, and then all the symptoms subsided as it were by 

 an act of enchantment. Evacuations returned, the spirits returned, and 

 the appetite returned. But in two days more the complaint returned, 

 and with Increased violence, which nothing could subdue, until terminated 

 by death on the 6tli day afterwards. The right ovary, formed into a 

 cyst, had contracted an extensive though lax adhesion with the arch of 

 the colon, with the functions of which, in its usual situation. It must in 

 consequence have interfered, had it not in some unaccountable manner 

 changed its position and got above instead of below the gut, and from the 

 right to the left side, where it had embraced and drawn It down upon the 

 pubes, and caused an hiternal strangulation of the intestine, in whose 

 cavity were found masses of dried dung. Within the tumour was a large 

 quantity of limpid inodorous fluid ; and embedded in its coats were several 

 serous cysts, and some melanotic tumours. 



