98 OVARIOTOMY OF TROUBLESOME MARES. 



Always in oestrum, and latterly a great nuisance. Squealing 

 and passing urine continually, and lately showing a tendency 

 towards using her heels. Recovery from the operation was 

 uneventful. 



On the 20th January 1902 I received a letter to say, "As 

 far as I am able to judge the operation on my mare has been 

 completely successful ... she does not appear to have suffered 

 from the operation at all. I hunted her yesterday for the first 

 time, and she carried me as well as ever. She was no trouble 

 whatever after the operation." In October 1902 I saw the 

 owner and he informed me that the result had been a perfect . 

 success. 



No. 18. 9th December 1901. — Hunter mare, six years old, a 

 kicker. The ovaries were cirrhotic and about half normal 

 size. On the 26th I received a note saying, "The mare has 

 made a perfect recovery, and has been at work a week. She 

 never showed the least outward symptom of having been 

 operated upon." The kicking propensities have all vanished, 

 and she has since been sold for .^100. 



No. 19. 8th February 1902. — Polo pony, aged, excellent at 

 her work, but squealed, kicked, and urinated profusely. Her 

 tail swished continually from side to side, she was always in 

 oestrum, and sometimes very unwilling and troublesome. The 

 right ovary was about twice the normal size. Both contained a 

 lot of Graafian vesicles. She became perfectly cured of all her 

 bad habits, but was never so good again at polo. In the words 

 of the owner, a very hard rider, " it seems to have knocked all 

 the stuffing out of her." 



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No. 20. 22nd March 1902.— Brougham mare, eleven years 

 old, in owner's possession six years. Worked satisfactorily 

 until a year ago, when she commenced to kick, squeal, and 

 urinate when put in harness. During the last three months she 

 had been quite unmanageable, and at the present time it was 



