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ever attention may have been bestowed upon the 

 patient. Among these may be enumerated colicfi, 

 liemorrhage, sivelling of the scrotum, gangrene, ahscesses, 

 champignon, fistula, hernia, peritonitis, tetanus, and 



amaurosis. 



COLICS. 



This, we have already seen, usiially appears a 

 short time after the completion of the operation, 

 the suffering animal becoming uneasy, restless in 

 his stall, pawing the ground with his fore feet, and 

 sometimes lying down and rolling. As I have be- 

 fore stated, these symptoms, as a rule, are of short 

 duration, and subside withoiit other treatment than 

 a little walking exercise. It is rarely the case that 

 they fail to yield to an anodyne, or a dose of chloral 

 may be demanded before the symptoms are subdued. 



TEARING OF THE CLAMPS. 



When this accident occurs it is commonly at- 

 tributable to the omission of a careless operator 

 to secure the tail of the animal in such a man- 

 ner as to prevent its interference with those im- 

 pliments by its entanglement, and tearing them 

 from the end of the cord, as a consequence. The 

 result of this is the appearance of a hemorrhage from 

 the spermatic artery, which can only be controlled 

 by either a reapplication of the clamps to the end of 

 the cord — if it can be thus secured— or by other 

 means, which will be considered when we reach th^ 



