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A CASE OF CHOKING IN THE HORSE. 
agreed that the bull should be fed, and made the most of by selling 
him. I then said “ If you intend him for the butcher, he will be 
worth quite as much after the operation, and very likely feed 
better, as the pain and tenderness of the parts now tend very 
considerably to harass him.” I further said, that I would hold 
myself responsible for the animal’s life as regarded the safety of the 
operation, with a proviso that I would have nothing fop my trouble 
if the bull did not get stock afterward, and that my fee would be 
so much if he did : this argument had its effect, and Mr. Meredith 
consented to my proposition. 
I procured six or seven men, and with a new waggon-rope suc- 
ceeded in casting him, and secured him in the manner I would a 
horse for castrating. The hull being of an immense size, and very 
savage, we had a great deal of trouble, and were exposed to no 
little danger in getting him down. 
I intended to have drawn the penis to the end of the sheath and 
remove the tumour, hut the muscles contracted so very powerfully 
that, after many attempts to do so, I was obliged to relinquish that 
plan. I therefore passed a staff into the sheath, and cut down upon 
it, over the part to which the end of the penis reached. I was 
then enabled to draw out the penis with the tumor, and removed 
it, with about two inches and an half of the penis. The incision 
in the integuments, which was about six inches long, was brought 
together by sutures, and the bull released : no dressing was after- 
wards applied, as it was impossible for any one to approach him. 
The sutures sloughed away in about a fortnight. 
Uppington being a great distance from Shrewsbury, I did not 
see him a second time ; but in six weeks after the operation he 
was loosed into the fold to a cow, which he served, and the whole 
of Mr. M.’s cows (sixteen in number), as well as some of his 
neighbours, are now in calf by the same bull. 
A CASE OF CHOKING IN THE HORSE. 
By Mr. George Holmes, Thirsk , Yorkshire. 
On the 29th of September, I was sent for in great haste, to 
attend what was said to be a very urgent case at Ashbury House. 
I found my patient, a horse, in the most distressing state, breathing 
with the greatest difficulty, heaving violently at the flanks, and the 
countenance exhibiting an expression of the intensest agony. He 
was foaming at the mouth, the ears cold and lying useless on the 
head; in fact, it was evident, that unless instant relief was afforded 
