92 OVARIOTOMY OF TROUBLESOME MARES. 



The ovaries were removed and sent to Professor M'Fadyean, 

 who described each one as cirrhotic and smaller than normal. 

 Recovery was quite uneventful, and even during the next few 

 days there was a perceptible improvement in her behaviour with 

 other horses. Before the operation she would, when near them, 

 behave very objectionably ; now, however, she did not take the 

 slightest notice of them. On the 4th of May she was ridden 

 out to exercise. On the iSth of June the owner wrote : "The 

 operation on my mare has been a complete success. She is 

 now perfectly quiet at all times with the other horses, and from 

 the moment the operation was performed never showed the 

 slightest symptom of pain or distress from it." 



On the 23rd of July 1901 the owner wrote: "The operation 

 has been a perfect success. Before it was performed, when her 

 periods were on, it was impossible to drive her in double 

 harness, or even to put her in double harness at all. Since the 

 operation she has become absolutely quiet, and the cure is 

 complete. I may add that there has been no diminution of 

 the mare's power or spirit whatever." At the present time 

 (December 1902) the mare is regularly at work', and there is 

 nothing by which one could tell any difference between her and. 

 any entire member of her sex. She shows no tendency towards 

 obesity or laziness. 



No. 6. 19th July 1900. — Carriage mare, ten or eleven years 

 old, in owner's possession about two years. Had always shown 

 oestrum in the spring and summer, but a few days ago kicked 

 the front of the brougham. She was always worse when 

 oestrum was coming on or going off. 



The ovaries were removed and recovery was uneventful, the 

 animal being exercised on the 23rd. After this she was regularly 

 ridden, in some cases for long gallops, until the middle of August, 

 when she was put back to carriage work. The objectionable 

 oestrum ceased, and the mare's habits were decidedly better, but 

 an unfortunate attack of colic and twisted intestine terminated 

 her existence on the 2Sth of September. Just about the time of 



