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thankful to say, in my most killing humour, 1 never ap- 
proached that awful ratio. I have, as you know, operated 
on a great many horses; and I have been able to ascertain 
to a certainty that out of 478 horses castrated by me, in the 
15th Hussars, I lost 14. This is 3 per cent., and I hope 
you will not consider that a high average, considering that 
the average age of the horses was 9 years 8 months, and that 
they were of all ages, from twenty down to four ; that only 
63 had not done work in the regiment ; and that all the rest 
had been at work for a period varying from fifteen years to 
one — and you can guess the effect of field-days on stallions. 
Truly yours. 
Mr. Hurford ought to have described his modus 
operandi . — Ed. Vet . 
TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF ANIMALS IN INDIA. 
By J. T. Hodgson, Y.S. 
You will be called suddenly to a horse which the native 
will inform you is mad. You will find the horse delirious, 
turning round and biting his sides ; sometimes he will lie 
down and get up again quickly, or strike the abdomen with 
the hind feet. The skin is very hot ; the pulse very hard and 
frequent, upw ards of 80 in a minute. 
Take blood from large orifices in both jugulars ; produce 
fainting, if you can ; if not, take aw’ay sufficient to lower the 
pulse, and repeat the bleeding if the hardness and fre- 
quency of the pulse continue ; give an enema, with ^ij of 
Aloes dissolved in it ; use the firing iron over the abdomen, 
and apply the mustard embrocation ; give every ten minutes 
a little luke-w 7 arm water. 
I can give you little hope of cure. In general, the horse 
dies ; the reason being, the disease is not within reach of the 
only remedial means that could relieve, the taking off the 
pressure by opening the abscess, which causes intense in- 
flammation of the mucous coat of the stomach ; sometimes it 
bursts, and discharges its contents into the stomach, but not 
sufficiently early to relieve. 
These tubercles were found in the stomachs of horses that 
had died, or w ere destroyed from other causes, w ithout having 
produced inconvenience during life, as w r as observed by my- 
self and others. 
Tubercles in the stomach vary in size, from a pea to a 
walnut, and contain thick greyish or thinner yellow matter ; 
