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One of the cases of haematuria presented several points of interest. 
It occurred in a bay cart horse, the property of Mr. Ranken, Leith, 
and was brought here June 18th, presenting the following appear^ 
ances. Constant attempts to void the urine, which was evacuated 
in small quantities, and bloody ; this symptom had existed to some 
extent for several months, but had, until the present occasion, been 
unaccompanied by much pain or constitutional irritation. His 
pulse was quick and small — abdominal pains were evinced by 
frequently lying down and looking at his sides — respiration was 
much accelerated, and the appetite lost. On examining the bladder 
through the rectum, great suffering was induced, and small quan- 
tities of bloody urine were evacuated. There was much heat in the 
neighbouring parts, and in the fundus of the bladder itself there 
was discovered a soft substance, as large as a hen’s egg, adherent 
to its coats. It evidently was not a calculus, as the symptoms might 
have led us to have suspected, but appeared to be a growth of a 
fungous and vascular character, or a clot of coagulated blood. The 
treatment adopted was chiefly of a palliative character, as the nature 
of the case did not seem to warrant the anticipation of a favourable 
result. The symptoms, however, although at one time such as 
apparently indicated approaching death, gradually became allevi- 
ated, and the horse went away three days afterwards comparatively 
convalescent, and is now at grass, rapidly recovering his condition. 
Taking into account the comparatively rare occurrence of choking 
in the horse, it is not a little remarkable that, during June, two 
cases of this description have come under our notice. One of them 
belonged to a cab-man, and was occasioned by a potatoe lodging 
in the horse’s gullet, about midway between the angle of the 
jaw and the chest. Gruel, with other demulcents, and external 
pressure, were ineffectually tried to remove the obstruction, but it 
was at length found necessary to introduce the probang; and, as a 
considerable degree of force was required to effect dislodgment of 
the foreign body, injury of the membranous and muscular structures 
of the oesophagus was apprehended, as much tenderness was evinced 
in the parts subsequently to passing the probang. In a few days, 
however, this gradually disappeared, and the power of deglutition 
was fully restored. 
The other case occurred in a horse belonging to Mr. Anderson, 
Leith. The animal was found in a grass field on the 23d June, 
hanging his head, breathing laboriously, and with a profuse dis- 
charge of saliva and mucus issuing from his mouth. The horse was 
brought here soon after being discovered ; and it was evident the 
obstruction in the oesophagus had existed for some time, as in- 
dicated by the great debility, anxious countenance, and cerebral 
oppression which were present. There was a diffused swelling ex- 
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