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CASE OF LITHOTOMY IN THE HORSE. 
With reference to worm in the eye occasioning- what is called 
“ kummeree,” or weakness in the loins, I think worm in the eye 
has as much to do with “ kummeree,” as it would have with the 
navicular disease. I see IVtr. Charles Percivall states, in his lettei 
which I have before referred to, and what seems to me very remark¬ 
able, that these horses (horses with worm in the eye) are frequently 
affected at the same time with what the Indians call “ kumme¬ 
ree.” Now, as far as I have seen/1 never knew a case of weak¬ 
ness in the loins occasioned by worm in the eye, or vice veisa. 
With reference to kummeree, I shall reserve what I have to 
say on that subject for a future period. 
CASE OF LITHOTOMY IN THE HORSE. 
By Mr. C. Taylor, F.S. Nottingham. 
This case was operated upon April 1,1833, and in which I 
was assisted by Mr. Wm. Wright, Surgeon. It was a ches- 
nut, six years old, fifteen hands three inches high, and a good 
I had been called upon, about two months before, to attend 
him. He then belonged to Mr. Wm. Wright, who appeared to 
be very much interested about the case. The horse passed bloody 
urine, with frequent attempts to evacuate the bladder, and which 
took place almost invariably after exercise, and more so after 
quick exertion. I at first treated him under the impression that 
he had a rupture of a capillary vessel of the kidneys; and, after 
bleeding, opening the bowels, &c., I gave him daily astringents, 
combined with small doses of opium; but with no good effect. 
From a continuance of the symptoms, I was led to suspect a 
calculus in the bladder, and, upon examination by the rectum, 
I discovered a solid body about the size of a pullet’s egg within 
the bladder, near its neck, and which was moveable. I examined 
him twice or thrice, at different periods, and was satisfied in my 
own mind, as much as I could be (without passing a sound), of 
the real nature of the case. 
Havincr never read or heard of any instrument being used tor 
that purpose in the horse, I turned my attention to this object, 
and first tried one (upon a dead subject) made of polished round 
iron, three feet long, exclusive of the handle, one and a quarter 
inch in circumference, and curved six inches at the extreme end, 
and which I was enabled to pass along the urethia as far as the 
symphysis pubis, but no further. 
