APPENDIX. lO^ 



SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING THIRTY CASES. 



From the foregoing thirty consecutive cases it will be seen 

 that, under strict antiseptic precautions and chloroform 

 anaesthesia, the operation of ovariotomy is one which can be 

 performed with comparatively little risk from peritonitis, the 

 great bugbear of old-fashioned surgery. The immediate after 

 effects, too, were practically nil, as in a large proportion of the 

 cases the words used in describing the mare were, " The animal 

 looks as if nothing had been done to her." It is quite a major 

 operation, of abdominal surgery too, and yet the patients took 

 not the slightest notice of it in any but the two instances 

 (Case 2, in which the mare happened to be in foal, and Case 25). 

 That Cases i and 17 were ridden within seven and ten days, 

 respectively, clearly demonstrates the fact of the very slight 

 ill effect. 



' Case 10 illustrates the fact that the removal of one ovary 

 only will not cause cestrum to cease or prevent future 

 pregnancy. 



Case 29 is an excellent illustration of the aseptic condition of 

 the cystic contents in, at all events, some cases. 



The above cases were taken consecutiously just as they pre- 

 sented themselves. Considering that no selection was made 

 the proportion of cases may justly be considered good. Of the 

 failures, most of them were aged animals, in whom the habit of 

 kicking had been confirmed for some considerable length of 

 time. 



