314 EPITHELIAL CANCER OF THE BLADDER. 
been brought under our notice. The horse was about 16 
years old, and had been in his late owners’ possession, 
(Messrs. Ransomes and Sims,) eleven or twelve years. He 
was a dark chestnut, very powerful and active, and had 
always been remarkably healthy, never having been under 
professional treatment save once, and that some years since, 
for lameness, during his lengthened servitude. He was also 
very fat, and in this respect he proved quite a prize for the 
knacker. In October last he was first brought under our 
notice in consequence of voiding blood with the urine. We 
made an examination, and found a tumour about the 
size of a hen’s egg, growing from (apparently) the fundus 
of the bladder, of an irregular shape, and having no peduncle. 
On the application of pressure, the animal evinced consider- 
able pain, and a small quantity of urine, mixed with blood, 
was instantly ejected. 
About a month previous to this time, we were informed 
that the animal had been observed to urinate more frequently 
than usual, and in smaller quantities. Sometimes he suffered 
pain after the act, but this did not seem to be a persistent 
symptom. Subsequently to the attack of haematuria, the 
bleeding ceased for several weeks, when it was particularly 
noticed that the urine was of a yelloioish white colour and 
remarkably viscid . The attacks of haematuria now became 
more frequent, the blood being always voided in clots, and 
which were sometimes very large. 
From the state of the parts in October last, you will be 
enabled to form a tolerably correct opinion of the rate 
of the growth of the shapeless mass now occupying the 
interior of the viscus. It is evident that its development, 
although not very rapid, was continuous, as but little space 
is left for holding the urine. Of late, an involuntary flow 
of this fluid followed upon the animal being* made to under- 
go the slightest exertion, but when at rest the bladder would 
contain a few ounces of urine, and the animal place himself 
in the ordinary position to expel it. 
With the exception of the morbid state of the bladder, 
every organ in the body was free from disease. Even the 
kidneys themselves gave no evidence of lesions of any kind. 
Two days before the animal was destroyed, the hemorrhage 
returned, and being accompanied with very great suffering, 
it decided his fate. 
We need scarcely add that from the beginning we des- 
paired of any good resulting from medical treatment. Little, 
therefore, was done beyond attention to dietetics, and the 
enjoining of perfect rest. 
