104 SCROFULOUS DISEASE OF TIIE EVE-BALL, ETC. 
was gaining flesh. The tumours increased in size daily, but 
remained hard and painful. On the 17th the eye changed for 
the worse, it protruded more, the tissues were more tense, and 
had the appearance of containing pus ; the cornea became of a 
reddish white colour, opaque ; *pus was secreted from the con- 
junctiva. Still, the mare ate and drank well, and seemed in good 
spirits; the pulse and respiration were normal, and continued so 
when I last saw her alive at noon on the 18th. At half-past ten 
the same evening she drank half a pailful of meal and water, 
and ate a good feed of corn. At 3.40 in the morning she 
was found dead in her box. She had evidently died without 
a struggle, as her sawdust bed was almost undisturbed. 
The treatment which I adopted at the commencement was 
simple. Nutritive, sedative, with repellent lotions to the 
eye ; laxative, followed by tonics and occasional diuretics, as 
seemed to be required ; hot fomentations, poultices, and 
every means to promote suppurative action in the tumours. 
I made a careful post-mortem examination the same day the 
animal died. Every internal organ was quite healthy, but 
large masses of cancerous -looking material were dispersed in 
lumps in the connective tissue of the neck, from the larynx 
to the division of the trachea into the bronchii. There would 
be many pounds’ weight of this adventitious material, which 
was more extensively deposited at the lower part of the 
trachea which it surrounded, embracing also the oesophagus, 
blood-vessels and nerves as they passed between the first 
two ribs, but it did not enter the chest. The brain was per- 
fectly healthy but rather pallid. 
The adventitious deposit was semi-cartilaginous in cha- 
racter, containing small cavities, in which there was a white 
creamy fluid which, I suppose, was not true pus, but softening 
of portions of the malignant material. 
Compared with the other healthy eye the globe of the 
diseased one was appreciably larger in every diameter, the 
cornea stretched, and its constituent parts thinned. I did 
not examine the contents of the eye-ball, preferring to trans- 
mit it intact, together with a portion of the deposit taken 
from the vicinity of the trachea to the Royal Veterinary 
College for Professor Pritchard’s opinion as to whether the 
disease affecting the eye was of a cancerous nature, and also 
whether there was a probability of connection between it and 
the tracheal deposits. 
I am indebted to the Assistant-Professor for his kindness, 
and have the satisfaction to state that he agrees with me in con- 
sidering that “ both depositions were of a scrofulous character, 
and both intimately associated with — indeed dependent upon 
— a scrofulous diathesis.” 
