STRAY CASES. 
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and the cord returned into the scrotal bag by being pushed 
back through the opening made for the escape of the testicle. 
In grasping one of the testicles I detected something hard in 
its structure, and consequently I cut into it, after its removal, 
and found a sharp-pointed piece of bone, of an oval shape, 
which may perhaps be better understood by professional 
readers if I describe it as being something like a four-drachm 
ball in form, hollowed out, flattened a little, and sharpened 
at its ends. 
All the colts did well, although some severe weather happened 
immediately after the operation, to which they were exposed. 
WORMS IN THE SPERMATIC ARTERY OF A COLT. 
Sometime ago I castrated a black cart-colt, one of two, for 
Mr. Henderson, Torsonce Mains, Gala Water, in the same 
manner as described above, and on cutting off one of the 
testicles below the clams, two live worms escaped. They 
were about three quarters of an inch in length, round shaped, 
not jointed, whitish in colour, and somewhat sharp pointed at 
both ends. The two colts did well. 
MAD STAGGERS (PHRENITIS) IN A MARE. 
I was lately called to attend a brown thoroughbred mare, 
aged, that was said to be so violent, from some cause or 
other, that they suspected madness to exist. She had been 
accustomed to draw bathing machines in and out of the 
water, on the seabeach at Portobello, a famed watering place, 
three miles from Edinburgh. On visiting m}^ patient, I 
found that she was so violent as to render it almost impos- 
sible to get near her ; at times she even attempted to climb 
up the wall, as if to escape from the stable by the roof, the 
door being barricaded. She was seen to be standing on her 
hind legs like a dog, with her fore-legs raised to the coping of 
the wall, and firmly grasping by her teeth one of the joists 
that supported the roof. On inquiring further into the history 
of her case, I was informed that she had been noticed to be 
dull and heavy the day previous, and had not answered to 
the bit wEen attempted to be pulled up by the boy, but went 
onward into the sea w 7 ith him on her back, and two ladies 
in a bathing-machine, until all were nearly afloat, causing 
much alarm for the safety of the parties. She was with 
difficulty got back and brought home, w 7 hen she continued in 
a dull state until the next morning, being then found in the 
excited condition I have described. 
