THOHACIC AND ABDOMINAL DISK ASK. 
permit only a very small stream of mine to flow. A purulent 
bloody fluid was constantly discharging from it, the fcetor of 
which was evident at a considerable distance. 
Having cast the horse, I introduced my bistoury under and 
between the tumour and the penis, making an incision in a 
direction outwards, and then proceeded to cut round the penis; 
but ill is occasioning great haemorrhage, I altered my plan, and 
took a large and sharp firing-iron, and with it excised the tu- 
mour. No bleeding took place, and to my great astonishment 
this mode of operating did not appear to give the horse a quar- 
ter so much pain as the bistoury. The tumour, when excised, 
weighed five pounds and three-quarters. In about three weeks 
the parts healed, and the horse got fat and sleek, and continued 
in good condition until about the latter end of August, when 
the carcinomatous growth appeared to be rapidly coming on 
again with all its former virulence. A slow bleeding took place, 
which, being neglected, occasioned his death in a short time. 
A CASE OF ALMOST UNIVERSAL THORACIC AND 
ABDOMINAL DISEASE. 
By Mr. T a i t, of Portsoy . 
April 27 lh y 1837. — “ Johny,” one of the valuable hunters of 
A. Morison, Esq., of Mountblairy, has been amiss for some days 
past, with a cough, not feeding so well as usual, and voiding his 
urine frequently, which is high coloured, and he looks occa- 
sionally at his sides, indicative of pain there. The groom, who is 
a very attentive man, thought he had some disease in his kid- 
neys. He bled him to the amount of ten quarts, and gave a 
laxative ball ; he also applied some stimulating liniment to his 
loins, and put a sheep-skin upon him. To-day he is sadly ema- 
ciated, and staggers when he is moved ; pulse frequent and 
weak, beating 78 in a minute ; flanks strangely tucked up, re- 
spiration increased, and he hangs his head, discharging white 
matter from his nostrils. The Schneiderian and conjunctival 
membranes of a florid red, and the extremities cold. 
Treatment . — Being so much reduced, he cannot stand more 
bleeding. Blister his sides extensively, and bandage his limbs; 
give twice a-day 3 iiij of tartarized antimony in his meal and 
water, which he takes very freely, and coax him with a little 
grass, or any thing he will take. 
29 th . — He looks more lively ; pulse 78 ; respiration about the 
same as when I last saw him. The blisters have done well, and 
