APPENDIX. 



Herewith is appended a list of thirty consecutive cases in 

 which one or both ovaries were removed from troublesome 

 mares, with brief details of each and a summary traced up to 

 December 1902. 



No. 1. 22nd July 1899. — Light van mare, ten or twelve years 

 old. A confirmed kicker in harness, especially when wearing 

 a breech-band. She had smashed several vehicles, and was 

 especially bad when in oestrum ; at any time it was dangerous 

 to approach her hind quarters. An ounce of extract of Indian 

 hemp was given in bolus at 2 P.M., followed by another half 

 ounce at 3.30, the idea being to stupify her sufficiently to 

 enable the operation to be done painlessly in the standing 

 posture. At 4 P.M., however, as there appeared to be no 

 marked effect, she was cast and chloroformed, and the ovaries 

 removed. Upon getting up and recovering from the chloroform, 

 she strained a little, but about six o'clock ate a fair meal, and 

 afterwards lay down comfortably. She was now very drowsy, 

 and this we attributed to the effects of the Indian hemp. 



Recovery was uneventful, and on the 29th she seemed so 

 well that the owner (on his own initiative) rode her about, and 

 also had harness put on her. She objected to this latter 

 procedure very much on this and several immediately sub- 

 sequent occasions, and was turned out to the grass for a month. 

 On the 1 2th September I received a letter to say that she had 



1 The major portion of this appeared as an article in the "Journal of Comparative 

 Pathology and Therapeutics," Vol. XV., page 135. 



