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until it had attained a very considerable size. After that it no 
longer increased, but became softer every day. On examining 
her with attention, a long farcy cord was discovered, deeply 
seated, going from the inferior part of the swelling, and direct¬ 
ing its course towards the ganglions at the entrance into the 
chest; and these were so much enlarged, that their situation 
could be plainly seen. 
The tumour was opened, and nearly two pounds of pus es¬ 
caped. As for the farcy, M. R. despaired to arrest its progress, 
since the cord had reached these ganglions ; and they, by their 
enlargement, proved that they were already affected : he, how¬ 
ever, attempted to prevent the arrival of more of the poison, and 
he made an incision at the entrance into the chest, and cut 
out an inch, at least, of the indurated cord. This was some 
days before he composed the interesting memoir which we have 
laid before our readers, and when it was sent to the press he 
had not heard the result of his operation. 
Recueil, Au^. 1834. 
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FUNGUS H.EMATODES IN THE EYE OF A MARE. 
By Mr, W. J. Godwin, F.-S., Birmingham. 
On Feh. 2, 1833, I was requested by J. Walker, a farrier 
in Lichfield, to see a case for him which he been attending, viz. 
a mare (to use his own words), out of whose near eye some 
proud flesh had grown, until it had turned the eye inside out. 
He had at different times cut and causticed some pounds away; 
but it grew as large as ever again in a very short time, and bfed 
a good deal whenever it was touched.” 
1 went with him, and found a fungoid tumour growing from 
the near orbit; soft, but resuming it shape after the removal of 
pressure; and bleeding considerably after examination. Upon 
inquiry, 1 learned that the tumour had existed five or six 
months ; but she had been blind of the eye affected several 
months previous to the appearance of the tumour. The ball of 
the eye, in the first instance, was noticed to have become con¬ 
siderably enlarged, and this increased until the cornea burst, when 
a small vascular tumour protruded, forcing before it the contents 
of the sclerotica, and distending this tunic to such an extent as 
to cause the farrier’s assertion of the eye having been turned 
inside out;” a description of the case not so inappropriate as, in 
the first instance, it appeared to be. From this period it grew in 
size rapidly : portions of it had been removed several times by 
