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of as many veterinary surgeons as possible: then let it be placed 
in the hands of an efficient senator ; and from that moment we 
may date the commencement of our gradual emancipation from 
the trammels which confine and gall us. 
With many expressions of gratitude to you for the prominent 
part you have taken in the endeavours to raise the veterinary 
profession from its present degraded state, 
I remain, Gentlemen, 
Your most humble servant, 
W. Simpson. 
Lancaster, Sept. 2 : 1830. 
STRANGLES FOLLOWING CASTRATION. 
To the Editors of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Gentlemen, 
Should you consider the following cases worthy of insertion in 
your valuable publication, you are welcome to make what use of 
them you may deem fit. Wishing success to your work, 
I am, Gentlemen, your’s, &c. 
John Lee, V. S. 
Sleaford, Lincolnshire. 
July 19 th, 1830.—A blood colt, belonging to H. Haudly, Esq. 
of Culverthorp Hall, Lincolnshire, immediately after being cas¬ 
trated, was attacked with strangles, accompanied by ulceration of 
the scrotum, and general oedema and debility. The groom had 
been trying his skill in farriering him for a month, his master 
being in town, and who on his returning sent immediately for me. 
I found his pulse between 60 and TO; appetite lost; legs much 
swelled ; penis and scrotum much enlarged ; great debility, and 
but little discharge from the nostrils. I applied fomentations and 
stimulating applications to the scrotum, and gave him a diuretic 
ball. The next day (he remaining much in the same state) I gave 
him 3vj*of liquor ammoniae acetatis, and a bolus composed of gin¬ 
ger, gentian, digitalis, and com. turpentine. I dilated the open- 
ingin the scrotum, and applied fomentations and stimulating appli¬ 
cations, as before. The same course of treatment was pursued for 
seven days, and the colt appeared to be recovered. On the eighth 
day he again lost his appetite, and a large tumour appeared to be 
forming on the inside of his thigh, near to the scrotum. I directed 
it to be fomented, and resumed his former medical treatment; and 
in two days from this time I discharged with a lancet upwards of 
