ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPLEEN. 
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common course, are taken into the circulation, and stimulate and 
inflame the kidnies ? The blood must be impure, for when it is 
drawn it very much resembles the urine. There is sometimes no 
other difference than that the blood coagulates, and the urine 
does not. The debility is early and excessive. 
We be£ leave to refer Mr. Steel and our readers generally to 
the 16th No. of “ Cattle,” published in the Farmer’s Series of 
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and where 
the subject of Red water is treated of at considerable length.— 
Edit. 
CARCINOMATOUS AFFECTION AND ENORMOUS 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPLEEN. 
By Mr. J. Anderson, F.S., Leicester. 
t * . » « 
On the 18th of January last I w r as requested to visit Contra¬ 
band, a dark brown stallion, rising eight years old, half an inch 
less than sixteen hands high, the property of Edward Hobson, 
Esq. Humberston Lodge. When four years old, he was the best 
racer in the county. He won the Billesdon Coplow stakes at 
Croxton Park, and several others. He has hunted two seasons, 
carrying 14 stones, and has sometimes been ridden three days 
successively. 
I accordingly attended and found the patient feverish, with 
the testicles drawn close up to the body; the left testis exceed¬ 
ingly enlarged, but with no appearance of acute inflammation. 
The pulse was 60; the bowels regular: he looked dull and spi¬ 
ritless. John Woods, the groom, who is a very intelligent man, 
and is above the common run of his class in horse-knowledge, 
was doubtful whether cancerous tumour did not exist, as he had 
seen the same symptoms at Mr. Richard Smith’s, when a horse 
that died, and was opened by Mr. Baker, was found to contain 
a tumour that weighed 84ifes, but there w r as no bloody urine. 
He had given the stallion a physic ball, and, for some time 
past, an ounce of aloes purged him more than 3ix had previously 
done. He had also given pulv. digitalis, tart, antimon., and nit. 
potassse. I caused the testicles to be suspended, and to be kept 
wet with a Goulard lotion, and the fever medicine to be con- 
tinued. I at first considered that I should here have a case of 
scrotal hernia. , . ... 
On the 25th I revisited the patient, and found him in a con¬ 
valescent state, and, by report, he got into a tolerably good 
condition. 
