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CASES. 
the pelvis ; the testicle having been entirely absorbed, and 
about two pints of fluid of the colour and consistence of 
porter deposited in its place; the tunics forming the sac were 
in a state of gangrene, and the fluid undergoing decom- 
position. 
Remarks . — No doubt the disease of the testicle was caused 
by the gripe given to it at the time of its slipping from the 
hands of the castrator : causing inflammation, subsequent ab- 
sorption, and deposition of fluid. 
Case II. 
Some time since I was ^requested by a farrier to go a 
distance into the country to see a case of tetanus in a five- 
year-old mare, which he had had under treatment for a week, 
and could do nothing more for her. 
On examination, I found the disease fully developed, the 
jaws being completely locked, and all the muscular system 
in a state of spasm. I found the cause to have been an ex- 
ternal injury of the coronet of the offhind-foot. She w r asthen 
in a stable with other horses which I had removed immedi- 
ately, allowing her the stable to herself, which w r as also made 
as dark as possible, and orders given that no person but the 
groom be allowed to go in to see her. 
Treatment . — I applied a plaster of Extract of Belladonna 
over the wound on the coronet, and ordered it to be repeated 
daily; put on the inside of the lips by the side of the grinders, 
by means of a small flat stick, about $ij of Ext. of Belladonna, 
which I ordered to be repeated twice per day. Three days 
subsequently I met the farrier at Bristol fair ; he informed 
me that the mare was not worse, but he thought there was a 
little improvement, and he should like me to see her again ; 
consequently I made arrangements to meet him at the place 
on the following Wednesday, that being exactly one week 
from the time I first saw her. I went according to promise, 
and found Mr. Farrier had been some hours earlier than the 
appointed time; and finding the mare so much better he said 
he should give her a ball to open her bowels a little more, 
and it was not necessary to continue the Belladonna ; at the 
same time stated that he could not wait, as he had a parti- 
cular case to attend to. 
When I arrived, I found the mare eating a feed of corn, 
and was informed that she had eaten several feeds in the last 
two days, as they considered she was all right ; as I was 
going up towards her, she turned round and kicked at me 
viciously, so much so, that she kicked my Mackintosh, just 
