DIFFERENT METHODS OF CASTRATION. 
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garded, but that he refused his food, and that his pulse got up to 
between 50 and 60. I therefore bled him, and took away five quails 
before the pulse was lowered. I administered a clyster, and left 
him for the night. The next morning I was called up at five to 
attend my patient, when I found him in the greatest agony, roll¬ 
ing about the box, chiefly lying on his back; pulse full and hard, 
and breathing very laboriously. Conceiving that I might have 
placed, the clams on the cord too high, so as to produce tension, 
I began by taking off the testicles, and then the clams, but this 
I found gave no relief; on the contrary, the symptoms were all 
getting worse, and I bled him a second time, to the amount of five 
quarts. I kept his belly constantly fomented, and gave him half 
a pound of Glauber’s salts in some gruel, and repeated the clyster. 
At twelve the same day, finding the horse evidently worse, and 
his pulse still hard and full, I bled him again to four quarts, and 
gave him one dmchm of opium and calomel combined. The enema 
was repeated, and at six I bled again to three quarts, and gave 
two scruples of calomel and opium : the fomentation of hot water 
was constantly kept to his belly. At twelve that night I bled to 
two quarts more, until my patient’s pulse was hardly to be felt. 
He staggered across the box: his pain, however, appeared some¬ 
what relieved, and I placed half a drachm of opium in the 
rectum. On the Thursday morning I found him, at half past 
four, much better, his pulse tranquil, about 52, expressing no 
pain, and his appearance much improved ; but he had still a slight 
catch in his breathing : however, my friend, Mr. Bloxham, who 
kindly came from Windsor to assist me in treating the case, arriv¬ 
ed about eight o’clock that morning, and we were both of opinion 
that the horse was doing well. His body not having been opened all 
day, we thought it advisable, intheevening, togivehimfourdmchms 
aloes. On Friday, Mr. Bloxham, conceiving the horse out of 
danger, had left me: he became restless again, and his pulse as full 
and hard as on the first day of his illness. I immediately took 
four quarts of blood away in the evening, and gave him two dmchms 
of aloes, and clysters every three hours.—Saturday, body open, pulse 
relieved, 48 ; belly still fomented ; suppuration not established in 
the parts, but altogether the horse seemed doing well.—Sunday, 
the anxiety expressed, and the restlessness hardly amounting to 
pain, yet indicating that all was not right within; and knowing 
that chronic peritoneal inflammation sometimes establishes it¬ 
self, it induced me, after trying, ineffectually, topical bleeding, 
to insert two large setons on each side of the abdomen. The body 
was open, and the horse picked green meat: the parts began to 
suppurate, and from this period he did well. 
The symptoms that I have traced will indicate to you that 
