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out ; abscesses had formed in the groin on each side, from 
sympathetic irritation ; and his appetite was indifferent. The 
history they gave me of the case was, that one day when the 
horse was standing with his penis drawn, the waggoner wantonly 
lashed him over it with his cart-whip, and that soon after his 
water began to dribble from him. Conceiving that this acci- 
dental circumstance might give rise to stricture, I had the horse 
cast, and found that I could pass the whalebone staff with ease. 
Being satisfied on this point, and taking all his symptoms into 
consideration, I considered it to be a case of irritable bladder, and 
immediately adopted the treatment laid down in this paper, 
under the effect of which he rapidly improved in flesh and 
strength, recovering his wonted condition and capability to 
work, and also recovering the power of retaining his water. 
The swelling and abscesses in his groin were gradually declining, 
with every probability of his being restored to health. One day, 
however, I was sent for in a hurry to him, having been attacked 
with what I found to have been a fit of apoplexy, and which car- 
ried him off before I could reach him. In affections of the urinary 
organs, this sort of metastasis is not unusual. I now made a 
post-mortem examination, and upon examining the whole course 
of the urethra I could detect no stricture ; the glands in the 
groin were still enlarged on each side, but the parietes of the 
bladder were much thickened ; the mucous membrane being 
still inflamed, but not ulcerated. A more beautiful specimen of 
this disease could scarcely be found ; and it affords me much gra- 
tification in being able to lay it before my professional brethren. 
A CASE OF FATAL CONTRACTION OF THE 
JEJUNUM. 
By Mr. Frank King, Jun. 9 Sianmore. 
Aug. 17th, 1835. — A black horse, low in flesh, naturally 
short ribbed, and light in carcass, was brought to our stables 
very lame in the near fore leg. He had been driven (said to be) 
moderately, a journey of thirty-eight miles two or three days 
previously. We proposed blistering the leg at once, adding, that 
as he was a young horse it would offer a good excuse for turning 
him out, and that, in all probability, he would come up perfectly 
sound. A blister was accordingly applied. 
18th . — In the morning he was found very uneasy, and soon 
began to lie down and rise again very quickly, but did not roll 
over at all. His bowels were apparently confined, nothing 
