690 ACCUMULATION OF INGESTA RESULTING IN DEATH. 
extent, that on standing behind the animal, the scrotum had 
the appearance of being as large as in a horse of four years 
old. Manipulation showed one of the testicles to be as hard 
as bone, and to have every indication of being adherent to the 
surrounding parts. The other felt quite loose and not 
nearly so hard. I told the owner he w 7 ould never do for an 
entire horse, and as far as I was able to judge, both testicles 
were in a state of disease. On hearing this, he said that he 
would leave me to do as I thought proper, and at once I had 
the colt thrown for castration. On making an incision 
through the scrotum, I had to dissect completely around 
the testicle to free it from its adhesions ; which being done, 
the caustic clam was put on in the usual way. The other 
testicle I removed more easily, although it was far larger 
than is usually found in so young an animal. Two days 
after the operation, I removed the clams, and the colt con- 
tinued well ever after. On cutting into the testicles after 
their removal, 1 found one of them to be nearly all composed 
of a cartilaginous substance ; and the other made up of bone, 
and so hard that no scalpel could penetrate it. On removing 
its covering, all the rest of its substance seemed to be tho- 
roughly ossified together, and in its present dry state it 
resembles nothing but a solid piece of bone, of a size as large 
as a hen’s egg. 
ACCUMULATION OF INGESTA RESULTING IN 
DEATH. 
By J. Brown, London. 
On Monday, August 20th, 1855, I was sent for to see a 
brown gelding belonging to Messrs. H. & C., which was said 
to be griped. I found him suffering a great deal of abdo- 
minal pain, which led to his frequently lying down and 
quickly rising again. The pulse and respiration were undis- 
turbed, except during the paroxysms. I gave him the usual 
anti-spasmodic draught, but which failed in affording relief; 
and therefore, after a short interval, I repeated it, when he 
became a little easier. 
On the following morning he seemed free from pain, but 
as his alvine evacuations were hard and dry, I administered 
three drachms of aloes in solution, and threw up an enema, 
to which the bowels responded a little on the next day. 
On Thursday, the bowels not being sufficiently acted on, 
