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cool gruel. Next morning she appeared well, as if nothing had 
ailed her. Her bowels had not been relieved since I saw her at 
first. I however did nothing but order a mash diet: the mare 
appearing well, I thought it best to let well alone; and in the 
course of the afternoon she dunged freely, and has since continued 
quite well. I consider the case a primary attack of spasm, and 
should think she vomited at least five or six quarts. 
SINGULAR STRANGULATION OF THE SPERMATIC 
CORD. 
By the same. 
As the following is a singular case, and the only case that I 
ever had the opportunity of examining, where the testicle re¬ 
mained in the abdomen, allow me to ask if the spermatic cord, 
in such cases, is usually as long, and the testicle found in the 
same situation, as there described. 
Sunday, 16th March, 1828, I was requested to attend a horse 
of Mr. Shades, of this town, with symptoms of abdominal in¬ 
flammation, for which I employed the usual remedies, without 
any remission of symptoms, till the evening of Tuesday the 18th, 
when he died. Upon examination, I found a large testicle in 
the abdomen, which had rested on the abdominal muscles on the 
left of the umbilicus, the spermatic cord of which was surrounded 
by the intestines, and was twice twisted, about two inches above 
the testicle, so as to stop entirely the circulation : the testicle 
was black and gangrenous, and the w T hole cord above the twist 
highly inflamed, as was the peritoneum, upon which the testicle 
had rested, about four or five inches round, and in the centre 
a little ulcerated. The rest of the viscera appeared healthy. 
ON THE DISEASES OF THE EARS OF DOGS. 
By W. You att. 
All water dogs are subject to a disease of the ear, called 
f* canker within the ear/' and which is inflammation of the in¬ 
tegument lining the inside of the ear. When the whole of the 
body, except the head and ears, is surrounded by cold w r ater, 
there must be an unusual determination of blood to these parts, 
and consequent distension of the vessels, and predisposition to in¬ 
flammation. A Newfoundland dog, or setter, or poodle, that has 
