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useful ; but Mr. Hill urged me to throw myself into the case, as 
the horse was rising in repute as a good stock-getter. I therefore 
prescribed some tonic and astringent medicines, and had the legs 
bandaged, and the body well clothed down. The only food that 
he would take for the eleven days that he lived was wheat-meal 
gruel and sago, a little of which he would drink, let us make it as 
thick as we would, and, in truth, we could not wish him to take 
any thing better. He continued nearly in the same state while he 
lived, except that he coughed occasionally ; the pulse became ex- 
ceedingly weak, and ranged generally about 75; the legs and ears 
were never warm ; his appetite gradually diminished ; indeed, he 
did not eat seven pounds of the meal in the whole eleven days, yet 
his belly became larger every day. 
I still thought that we should find the principal seat of disease 
in the liver, although I began to recollect that, eighteen months 
prior to this, his former master had brought him to my house be- 
cause he could not, as he told my assistant, pass his water. I was 
from home. His owner, with whom I was on good terms, took 
away with him my male catheter. The horse soon got better, and, 
I believe, without the aid of the instrument, and .he never w r as ap- 
parently amiss, either before that or since, until he went to his new 
master, about ten weeks ago. 
I afterwards learned, that on the very next day to that he staled 
great quantities of coagulated blood, and was attacked by violent 
pains, which were attributed to colic. His master gave him two 
urine balls, which relieved him, and he did not stale any more 
blood, or exhibit any uneasiness until the day that I saw him : 
except that he appeared to have a larger body than he should have, 
or had before. He had travelled two seasons as a stallion, and the 
season prior to his death he stood in the stable, and several mares 
were sent to him, which foaled in the course of this summer. 
The horse died on the 24th. I told the owner that I much wished 
to open him, to which he readily consented. 
There was a great quantity of yellow-coloured fluid in the cel- 
lular membrane of the scrotum, and the under surface of the abdo- 
men. The testicles were laid open, and in the centre of each was a 
cavity filled with fungus and grumous blood, and a somewhat similar 
appearance was continued up the cords into the abdomen. The 
abdominal muscles were then cut through, and the cause of death 
immediately presented itself. There was an enormous tumour, 
shaped something like a kidney. In fact, it was the right kidney. 
It was as large as, or larger than one of the cornua of the uterus 
of a cow far advanced in pregnancy. When I had dissected it 
out I put my arms around it, but could only just clasp my hands. 
