I04 OVARIOTOMY OF TROUBLESOME MARES. 



mare never ' looked back ' in the least from the operation, and 

 feeding well and heartily as though nothing had ever occurred. 

 She has only worked in the chain gears up to now, but with 

 perfect manners so far." Since then a further communication 

 states : " The mare is behaving very well, putting on flesh and 

 working either in shafts or chains without showing the least 

 trouble, so that we may therefore consider the operation a 

 complete success." 



No. 30. loth December 1902. — Cob mare, seven years old, 

 in present owner's possession about three months, but known 

 previously to be of uncertain temper. She was almost con- 

 tinually in oestrum, and during those periods would kick un- 

 expectedly and violently in harness. She was very dangerous 

 to approach in the stable, kicking at the groom most viciously. 



Both ovaries were cirrhotic. The left ovary was slightly 

 different to normal in that it had a pendulous cyst,^ with a 

 pedicle about an inch long, attached to one edge. This puzzled me 

 for a few moments, as I was not quite sure what it might be, but 

 eventually it was included in the chain loop and removed. A 

 small piece of omentum, about an inch square, was removed at 

 the same time, it having been pushed into the chain covering 

 the surface of the ovary. 



Recovery from the operation has been quite uneventful, and 

 the mare has been put to work. She is, however, still trouble- 

 some in harness, but there is a marked improvement in her 

 behaviour in the stable. She can be approached and handled 

 without displaying viciousness. The owner proposes to give 

 her a couple of months' run in the hope that she may settle 

 down and forget her bad habits now that their presumed cause 

 is not there to give rise to sexual irritation. (See also Cases 15 

 and 16). 



1 See Fig. 33. 



