DIFFUSED TUBERCULAR DEPOSITIONS. 
501 
The history given me of the case was, that three months 
previously, an enlargement, supposed to be a small wart, was 
sloughed off by ligature, and afterwards the tumour presented 
itself, accompanied with much discharge. 
On Friday, April 6th, spontaneous bleeding from the 
tumour took place, and on the following Tuesday, the 10th, 
the veterinary surgeon that had attended him was sent for, 
and he recommended the horse to be sent to my infirmary 
at Edmonton. The bleeding had then ceased. It was 
thought the horse had lost about three parts of a pailful of 
blood. 
On the 12th, I removed the tumour, while the animal was 
under the influence of chloroform, and for the first fortnight 
the wound appeared to be doing well, but afterwards the 
granulations became unhealthy. I therefore applied the 
actual cautery over the surface of the wound, and subse- 
quently antiseptic poulticeswere resorted to. From the state of 
the wound, I found it necessary to vary the excitants, using 
both the sulphate and the chloride of zinc, also the nitrate 
of silver and nitric acid, and again and again applying the 
actual cautery, without obtaining the desired effect. My 
report to the owner was therefore unsatisfactory. 
On June 4th, he came and saw the horse, which he found 
to be in good condition, and expressed himself satisfied on 
that head, I, however, told him I considered the disease 
constitutional and incurable, but he wished me to keep him 
under treatment still longer. On the 20th, I received a note 
from him, stating that should I think proper to return the 
brown horse, to send needful directions as to what was to be 
done to his coachman, as he was going from home for some 
days. As the distance was fifteen miles, I had the horse 
gently exercised, after which the animal appeared greatly 
distressed, and the system began to sympathise. Several 
indurated swellings likewise made their appearance about the 
back, loins, and hind quarter, and also oedematous swellings 
about the chest and sheath. The visa tergo of the blood in the 
jugular veins was rapid, and the pulse 48, but I could not 
feel the action of the apex of the heart against the ribs. The 
animal never showed symptoms of the acute stage of disease 
of the lungs ; but on the 25th, I wrote to the owner, stating 
that the action of the heart and lungs was so embarrassed, 
that I feared suffocation would take place, and if the horse 
were not destroyed, he would soon die. I therefore wished 
him (the owner) to come and see the state the animal was in. 
To prolong life till I received an answer, I tapped the chest, 
and drew from it twenty-two quarts of fluid, quite clear, and 
