ON FUNGUS H/EMATODES. 
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stiff, and handsome one, of the cart breed, and rising eight years 
old — I found a large fungous excrescence (from the cyst of which 
a bloody discharge was constantly running) pendent from the 
right or off mamma, as low as the hocks, with the edges of the 
cyst (from which it was by the process of sloughing becom- 
ing detached, being at that time retained in its situation by 
its own membranous attachments) so surprisingly everted, that 
words are inadequate to convey the slightest idea of the miserable 
spectacle that was presented, or the horror which I felt while 
viewing it. Finding that the mare was gradually sinking under 
gangrene, and that death would inevitably claim his prize in the 
course of a very few hours, an operation at that time, and under 
such circumstances, would have been useless and cruel ; therefore 
the only remedial measure resorted to was the application of a 
solution of the chloride of lime, more in order to destroy the ex- 
cessive fcetor, than on account of any curative effect I could ex- 
pect from its application. In the course of four or five hours after 
I left her, the fungus, as I anticipated, dropped off, an event 
which the mare did not survive more than an hour. 
Having a strong recollection of the former case, I was deter- 
mined if possible to obtain an after-death examination, and went 
with that intention to the proprietor on the following morning, 
who immediately acceded to my wishes, giving me, at the same 
time, the mare’s history, which proves highly interesting as corro- 
borative of the true nature of the disease, and the opinions which 
I have, in a former paper, advanced. 
Mr. P. informed me that he bred the mare, and to his own 
knowledge he and his father had been in the possession of this — 
I may almost say — indigenous breed without a single cross for 
the last fifty years. That during that time he had known several 
of the breed with tumours variously situated, but (until the pre- 
sent case brought a faint recollection to his mind of a similar one 
during his boyhood, and where death took place under similar cir- 
cumstances) the tumours, so far as he knew, had never interfered 
with their bodily health, but had remained stationary in all of 
them, apparently free from pain — never at any time perceptibly 
increasing or decreasing during their life, and their deaths having 
no reference whatever to them, but always arising from natural or 
accidental causes. 
The subject of the present case had borne two foals, and until 
the preceding fortnight had been a remarkably healthy mare, and 
had not had a single grain of medicine given to her during life. 
The tumour was first observed when she was about two years old ; 
and previous to this inflammatory action being excited in it, its 
size had never exceeded that of a hen’s egg, in a trifling degree 
