298 ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS, 
SECTION VIII. 
PROPERTY. 
1. No payments of money due from the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons shall be made except by order of the Council, and 
only by cheques, such cheques to be signed by the President of 
such Council Meeting, and countersigned by two of the Members 
of the Council then present. 
2. All surplus monies belonging to the Royal College of Vete- 
rinary Surgeons, except what is necessary to be in the hands of the 
bankers for current expenses, shall be vested, from time to time, 
in the Three per Cent. Consols of Great Britain, or other Govern- 
ment securities, in the names of Trustees appointed by the 
Council. 
EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION ON A 
HORSE. 
Mr. SMALL, veterinary surgeon, of Armagh, has recently per- 
formed with success an operation for the removal of an enormous 
tumour, of the weight of twenty-nine pounds. The tumour was 
the effect of a collision with the shaft of a cart in the month of 
September last, which not only bruised and lacerated the pectoral 
muscles, but also fractured the sternum (breast-bone). The 
wound healed slowly, and as it closed up, the tumour formed and 
gradually enlarged in size, until the action of the fore legs was so 
much obstructed, that the horse was almost unable to move, and 
his owner deeming recovery hopeless, had determined on consign- 
ing him to the dog-kennel, when Mr. Small, conceiving there was 
a probability of effecting a cure by excision, undertook the trial of 
that operation, assisted by Mr. Mallam, jun. It proved to be a 
most difficult and intricate one, and lasted twenty-seven minutes, 
the carotid artery, as well as several ramifications of the pectoral 
arteries, having to be secured. The patient, however, is now doing 
well, and the wound consequent upon the extraction of the tumour, 
although actually appalling to look at its size and depth, is rapidly 
healing. The above is one of several difficult cases in which Mr. 
Small has operated successfully. Perhaps in no other instance has 
the case of “ Inguinal Hernia” in the horse been attended with 
a more fortunate result than in the operation performed by Mr. S. 
on the valuable race-horse Coiner, the property of Wm. Fivey, 
Esq., of Loughadian, county Down, and for which he received 
a fee of £100. This we believe to be unparalleled for a single 
operation in veterinary practice. 
