82 OVARIOTOMY OF TROUBLESOME MARES. 



Walking exercise should be given on the third day, and the 

 mare can be put to gentle work in a fortnight or three weeks. 



She may be immediately cured of all her bad habits/ or they 

 may persist for a few weeks or even months, disappearing 

 gradually.^ Sometimes they will not have completely gone 

 until after the following spring, and in other instances it is 

 a good plan to turn the patients out to pasture to give a little 

 time in which to get in good condition and forget their vices.^ 



If the troublesome habit has existed for less than six months 

 a satisfactory prognosis can generally be anticipated. If the 

 mare has been a confirmed kicker for years the result is 

 uncertain. 



Between 1888 and 1B93 Professor Cadiot states* that he 

 operated upon eighteen nymphomaniac mares. Eight became 

 cured, three improved, in five cases there was no change, and 

 the remaining two were lost sight of. 



M. Schwendimann reported* statistics of sixteen vicious 

 mares belonging to the Swiss army. In seven cases complete 

 cure resulted, and in four others there was an improvement. 



It has been said that a spayed mare will get fat and 

 lazy ; probably improper feeding and want of exercise have a. 

 great deal to do with this ; up to the present the result of the 

 thirty cases in the Appendix has not tended to support the 

 statement. They have all been well looked after and observed 

 closely ; several were operated upon four years ago, and in 

 no single instance at present has undue obesity ensued, although 

 several of them which could not be got into condition before 

 the operation are now looking well and sleek. 



The removal of one diseased ovary may even allay a mare's 

 sexual irritation sufficiently to allow her to afterwards breed a 

 foal.« 



1 See Appendix, Cases 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 27, 28 and 29. 

 ' See Appendix, Cases 6, 8, 1.3, 15 and 16. 



3 See Appendix, Cases 15 and 16. 



4 "De rovariotomie chez la jument et chez la vache,'' por P. J. Cadiot. 



" Foreign abstract (translated by H. G.), "Veterinary Record," Vol. XI., page 145. 

 s "Veterinary Record," October 1902, page 210 (Page and Hobday). Appendix, Cas& 

 10. 



