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recommendable, especially when there appears any pain or diffi- 
onity in giving exit to the feces.” 
HEMORRHOIDS, OR PILES IN THE HoRsE. 
The following case of piles, occurring in the practice of Mr 
P, Wats, V.S., is here introduced from the “ Veternarian:” 
“On the evening of March 13, 1851, I was summoned hastily 
to attend a brown carriage-mare, belonging to an employer about 
a mile distant from Norwich, which was reported to have some- 
thing ‘bloody’ hanging out of her rectum. The coachman who 
came said it had made its appearance two or three times during 
the day after dunging, but had always returned again, until just 
before he left home, when a portion of it was left out, and the 
mare became very uneasy. On my arrival, I found, as reported, 
the mare in pain, indicated by a peculiar switching or lashing of 
the tail, and stamping of the hind feet; but she had not lain 
down, although she made several attempts to do so. It first struck 
me as a case of prolapsus ani, but, on examination, it proved to be 
a true case of piles. The tumor protruding was about the size of 
a duck’s egg, presenting pieciseiy the appearance of a pilous grape 
in the human subject, only, of course, much larger. I had some 
difficulty in returning it, in consequence of the powerful action 
of the sphincter ani, which, no doubt, accounted for the pain; but, 
having accomplished it, the mare became easy, and continued so 
for some little time. I thought it right, however, to have her 
removea to my infirmary, as I anticipated a return of the tumor 
when she again dunged, in which I was not deceived, since, on her 
arrival at my stable, I found it out again. On making a more 
minute examination, I discovered smaller tumors round and about 
the larger one, the latter, however, being the only one that pro- 
truded. The mare being naturally of an irritable temperament, 
and consequently dunging more frequently than one less so would 
have done, induced me to have a careful assistant remain up with 
her during the night, for the purpose of returning the tumor 
whsnever it made its reappearance, which it invariably was said 
to do after each evacuation, pain being constantly present at such 
time. 
Reflecting on the case next morning, and ol serving consider- 
able mischief was being done by the necessary manipulation, J] 
