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CALCULUS WITHIN THE URETHRA. 
say the least in its favour, so that scanty as Homoeopathy 
may be, it is a very poor affair indeed, if it will not stand 
comparison with the other. 
CALCULUS WITHIN THE URETHRA. 
By F. Blakeway, M.R.V.C.S., Stourbridge. 
Dear Sir, — Feeling interested in the following case, 
perhaps because it was the first of the kind I ever met with, 
I have sent it for your perusal. 
My patient was a carriage-horse, 18 years old, the property 
of Charles Roberts, Esq., of the Field House, near this town, 
which the coachman called me to attend, at 3 p.m. on the 
21st of April last, stating that he could not stale, notwith- 
standing he had bled him, and given a diuretic ball and 
turpentine draught. On my arrival, I found he had been in 
that state since the day previous. 
Symptoms, then present, were as follows: — Pulse all but 
lost at the maxillary; extremities cold; anxious countenance; 
body bedewed with clammy sweat; penis drawn, and con- 
siderable stiffness in motion ; respiration but slightly excited. 
Upon examination, per rectum , found the bladder highly dis- 
tended, but pressure failed to evacuate any of its contents, 
and upon closer examination I found in the urethra, near 
the neck of the bladder, a substance which immediately 
struck me to be calculous matter. My first endeavour was, 
by manipulation, to force it back into the bladder ; I then 
passed a catheter, hoping with that assistance to accomplish 
it, but all to no purpose ; so informed my employer that the 
horse would be dead before morning, and most probably 
with ruptured bladder, unless he were operated upon, and 
which operation I represented to him in its proper light. It 
being a favourite horse, Mr. R — wdshed everything tried, 
but stated he should feel perfectly satisfied let the case turn 
out as it might. So I returned home, at once, for my instru- 
ments, and, it being a distance of five miles, I did not again 
see my patient till 9, p.m., when he appeared so much worse 
that I determined to operate immediately, without casting. 
Having w T ell twitched him, and passed the catheter, I cut 
down upon the calculus, as near the fundament as possible. 
After a little difficulty, with a long pair of forceps, I extracted 
the' calculus wffiole, but, to my astonishment (for I expected 
