324 DESCENT OF THE BOWEL FOLLOWING CASTRATION. 
Treatment. — Belladon. Extract. 3 iij, to be given as before, and 
a plaister of the same to be applied to the part that has sloughed. 
29 th . — Pulse 68. Bowels relaxed — general improvement. 
Treatment the same as yesterday, and continued, with little 
variation in the dose of ext. belladon. until the 8th Sept., when 
she was considered sufficiently recovered to be turned to grass, 
although it was with difficulty she could get her mouth low 
enough at first. She did not entirely shake off all appearance of 
disease for a month ; but, after that period, she got as well as before. 
DESCENT OF THE BOWEL FOLLOWING 
CASTRATION. 
By the same. 
A FEW weeks since I was sent for in great haste a distance of 
about three miles to see a well-bred two-year-old colt that had 
that afternoon been castrated. After the operation, when the 
animal began to walk, the castrator observed an enlargement in 
the scrotum, which in a few minutes proved to be the intestine. 
It began to increase, and descended nearly to the hock. I was im- 
mediately sent for, and by the time I arrived the castrator had 
the colt again cast, replaced the intestines, and put three stitches of 
small twine in the abdominal ring through and across ; also three 
more stitches through the upper part of the scrotum, as close to the 
ring as possible. The stitches appeared to be well placed in the ring, 
and I did not consider it necessary to make any alteration : had I 
been there a few minutes earlier, I should have used the metallic 
wire, instead of the twine. The colt did well, without any further 
treatment, more than a little physic and a restricted diet. 
This person informed me that he had operated on more than 
3000 colts, but never had such a case before. The omentum he 
frequently found in the scrotum : that he never hesitates to take 
off, even to the extent of a yard. 
PROTRUSION OF INTESTINE THROUGH A WOUND 
IN THE FLANK. 
By the same. 
October 'USth, 1846. — I WAS called to see a grey cart mare, the 
property of Mr. H. Wren, of Holt, about four miles distant. She 
had been gored by a bull, which had a few days before killed a 
