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stream of blood issued from the wound at the time, which at first was 

 disregarded ; but, half-an-hour afterwards, perceiving that the hemor- 

 rhage continued, the horse was led into a river, and allowed to remain 

 therein for half-an-hour, up to his belly in water. The bleeding stopped, 

 and Gohier left him; but, on his return, he found that a great deal of 

 blood had been lost ; that the pulse was very small ; and that vision was 

 extinguished, owing to an extreme dilatation of both pupils. Gohier 

 applied some agaric powder to the vessels, and plugged the wound with 

 tow, which he confined by sutures. The bleeding ceased, but left the 

 animal in extreme weakness for thirty- six hours ; during which cordials 

 were administered. By degrees he recovered, and about the fifteenth 

 day his strength returned : the pupils, however, continued still in a state 

 of dilatation, and vision remained very defective. For four months he 

 was kept under observation, remaining in statu quo ; afterwards, he went 

 to work in a cart, and at the elapse of a year died of colic. 



Strangles, or something akin to it, has proved a sequel — 

 I do not say a consequence — of castration, as the subjoined 

 case will show : it must, I take it, or its viruSf have pre- 

 existed in the system. 



Mr. Lee, V.S., Sleaford, was called to a blood-colt, who immediately 

 after being cut had been " attacked with strangles, accompanied by ulce- 

 ration of the scrotum and general oedema and debility." The pulse was 

 60 ; the appetite gone ; the penis and scrotum muoh swollen. Fever and 

 diuretic medicine, and opening and fomenting the scrotum, to appearance 

 recovered him. On the eighth day he again lost his appetite, and then 

 a large tumour appeared to be forming on the inside of the thigh, near 

 the scrotum. Two days afterwards, Mr. Lee opened the tumour, and let 

 out upwards of two quarts of pus, " which flowed through the abdominal 

 ring." The colt thenceforth regained his appetite, and in a few days 

 became quite on the road of recovery. 



Farcy and Glanders followed castration in the case an- 

 nexed : . 



In May, 1823, a three-year-old colt, the property of Mr. L., of Eltham, 

 was cut in the usual manner, with the actual cautery, by my father. On 

 the seventh day afterwards some pimples, perceptible only to the feel, 

 were discovered upon the outer side of the near quarter, forming by their 

 course a connected chain. These grew in size and assumed the appear- 

 ance of farcy buds. And what increased suspicion was, that the colt 

 halted with the limb. On the tenth day, similar pimples appeared upon 



