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THE SEQUELS OF CASTRATION. 
On the fourth day one bleeding, and the same treatment con¬ 
tinued. 
Every one of these twenty horses died. 
Disappointed and grieved at the result, I altered my plan, for 
I had no longer any chance of doing good by persisting in my 
former course. 
At the appearance of the first symptoms I abstracted six or 
seven pounds of blood. I plunged the hot iron into the tumour, 
with or without previous scarifications ; and at the same time 
I rubbed the swelling with equal parts of ammonia and olive oil. 
I bathed the inferior extrem ity of the cords with the same lotion. 
I repeated the friction and the bathing four or five times during 
the first day. 
At the expiration of about twelve hours I found that the tu¬ 
mour was not so circumscribed as it was before ; that it was 
evidently becoming phlegmonous, and that the extremities of 
the cords that had been dry were now moist. The fluid which 
ran from the scarifications was less transparent, and more fluid. 
The head of the animal was more elevated, more moveable. The 
animal did not crouch so much, and endeavoured to eat. 
On the second and following days I repeated the same treat¬ 
ment, excepting the bleeding; diminishing every day the fric¬ 
tions and the lotions. On the second day there were four fric¬ 
tions ; on the third day, three; on the fourth, two; and only 
one on the fifth ; and they were not applied with so much severity. 
I endeavoured to adopt my measures to the intensity of the case. 
The scarifications and cauterizations likewise bore proportion to 
the extent of the tumour, and the rapidity with which it in¬ 
creased. 
One of the indications of improvement, and which never de¬ 
ceived me, was the appearance of a white puriform matter round 
the pledgets introduced into the wound made in scarifying and 
cauterizing when they were withdrawn, and after, by the means 
of them, I had introduced the ammoniacal liniment to the very 
bottom of the sinus or ulcer. 
The suppuration of the cords, and the scarifications being 
established, the tumour resolved itself like an ordinary phleg¬ 
monous one: the horse recovered his spirits; I caused him 
to be exercised two days after he began to get better, and he 
o'radually returned to his former food and habits. 
The cuticle and the hair which covered the swollen parts 
always came oft' after this mode of treatment, but they were 
soon entirely removed. 
The combinations of peritonitis and pleurisy were very rare in 
horses subjected to this mode of treatment. I only perceived 
them in twenty horses, and they died : and, in fact, I only lost 
