WATERY FARCY — EXTERNAL DROPSY, &C. 443 
1th . — But little swelling remains. Repeat the ball, and continue 
in other respects as before. 
8th . — The bowels were again opened during the latter part of 
yesterday. 
9 th . — No remains of the tumour. Let him go to his own stable, 
and be fed on corn and green-meat, and exercised twice a-day until 
ready again for his work. 
A Case of the same kind having a different Termination. 
A race-horse, by name, STEAMER, for some years past used as a 
covering stallion, but within this last year emasculated, was brought 
to me with a tale from the groom that he had received a blow upon 
the cannon of the near hind leg that had caused lameness, and on 
account of which he had already been fomenting his limb for three 
or four days without benefit : indeed, on the fourth morning he 
proved lamer than he had been before; and this alarming the 
groom, he had brought the horse to me. I found him halting 
exceedingly on the near hind leg, and, coming to examine it, 
detected a circumscribed solid, firm, flattened tumour, four or five 
inches in diameter, rising upon the inner side of the thigh, about 
midway between the groin and hock, or rather nearer to the former. 
It had all the characters of what the groom, as soon as he saw it, 
pronounced it to be “ humour,” and was in fact, to all appearance, a 
swelling arising from subcutaneous deposition of lymph. It felt 
hot ; and the touch of it even, and particularly pressure, caused 
annoyance and pain. Let him lose immediately viij lbs. of blood ; 
take calomel 3j, a mass, purgant. 5j, M. Have continual foment- 
tation to his thigh, and be led out for gentle exercise. 
The day after (the 10th of May) the physic has operated, and 
the patient is better — less lame, and tumour diminished both in 
volume and tenderness. 
12 th . — A return of his lameness has rendered him almost inca- 
pable of hobbling, this morning, out of the stable : when once got 
out and exercised a little, however, his lameness much diminished. 
The tumour has lost its defined and circumscribed character — has 
merged into a general fulness of the inner parts of the thigh, at- 
tended with unusual tenseness and solidity of feel of them. Pres- 
sure in any part makes him flinch, but much more so in the groin 
than any where else, and yet no distinct enlargement of the in- 
guinal glands can be made out ; nor are there any knots or corded 
swellings in the course of the lymphatics. The saphena vein is 
certainly so much distended that it might be at first mistaken for 
