ENLARGEMENT OF THE KIDNEY IN A HORSE. 619 
The sum received £197 14 0 
The expenses incident 11 14 0 
Leaving a balance of. £186 0 0 
which has been expended in a Service of Plate, agreeably to the desire of 
Mr. Youatt. May he to whom this night it has been presented live long to 
enjoy it; and may the wishes so admirably expressed by Mr. Field be 
realized by him. For my own part, I have gained much, both from him and 
these associations ; for I have experienced the honour which results from 
being connected with those who are justly esteemed, and the luxury which 
arises from doing good. 
(M.) 
A CASE OF ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT OF THE 
KIDNEY IN A HORSE. 
By Mr. JAMES Freeman, V.S., Winterton, Lincolnshire. 
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I BEG to send a brief account of a case which I think of very 
rare occurrence, and that came under my notice on the 13th of No- 
vember, 1838. The patient was an entire coach-horse, rising six 
years old, the property of Mr. Robert Hill, of Alkborough, who had 
purchased the horse three months previously. He stood nearly 
seventeen hands high, and he used to carry rather a light carcass, 
but now a very huge one, in fact, as large as that of an old cow in 
calf, and just at the time of calving. 
When I first saw the horse he was labouring under superpur- 
gation. The respiration was quick, the pulse quick and weak, 
and the body and extremities deathy cold. A bottle of linseed 
oil had been given to him on the previous evening, and this had 
set up the purging, which ceased not while he lived. 
The owner asked me what was the complaint. I evaded any 
peremptory diagnosis, but I told him that I thought it probable that 
we should find enlargement of the liver, for when he lay on his 
left side I could see and feel a large hard substance pressing against 
the parietes of the abdomen on the right side ; there was much 
anasarca under the belly, and the scrotum was much swollen and 
pendulous. The membranes of the eyes, nose, and mouth were 
deeply tinged. There was a staring coat, and the skin fast to the 
ribs. He staled frequently, and the urine was of a high colour. 
I did not wish to do any thing to him, for I saw no hope of being 
