AMAUROSIS FOLLOWING HAEMORRHAGE. 
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This animal, who had fed for some time entirely on dried tre¬ 
foil and lucerne, had eaten during’ the last eight day$, a larger 
quantity than usual. At the time of my arrival he had all the 
symptoms which characterised stomach staggers in the preceding 
subject. The same means were employed to combat the disease, 
and were followed by the same results. 
On the 20th he was considered to be cured; but on the 22d, 
on taking him out for exercise, we perceived that he had lost his 
sight, although the eyes did not appear to be diseased. Being 
sent for to examine this case, which appeared so very extraordi¬ 
nary, I immediately perceived that the horse had amaurosis. 1 
made use of all the remedies which had succeeded so well in the 
preceding case: but this time I was less successful, and not¬ 
withstanding all my efforts, the horse remained blind. 
Amaurosis following haemorrhage from the large testicular artery , 
after castration. 
2'2d of May , 1824, at three o'clock in the afternoon .—A colt 
of three years and a half old, of a middle size and a good con¬ 
stitution, belonging to M. B., merchant, at Brasseite (Meuse). 
Towards eight or nine o’clock in the morning the operation of 
castration by the cautery had been performed on this horse by a 
travelling gelder. At eleven o’clock the proprietor perceived that 
a few drops of blood fell from the incisions made into the 
scrotum, and which increased every moment; and to such a 
degree, that when I arrived I found a great quantity in the place 
which the colt occupied. The blood continued to flow ; the 
animal was weak and staggering, his respiration accelerated, 
and the heavings of the flanks jerking; the pulse was small, 
and scarcely perceptible; the eyes fixed, and the eyelids im¬ 
moveable. 
I caused the patient to be thrown and secured, as if for the 
operation of castration; I then sought for the cord, and suc¬ 
ceeded, not without difficulty, in finding and tying it. To make 
it more safe, I afterwards stopped up the wound with a pledget 
of tow, which I kept in its situation by sutures passing through 
the scrotum. The haemorrhage had taken place on the right 
side only. When the animal was raised, warm sugared wine 
was given him to sustain his exhausted strength; he was then 
well covered, and put under a restorative ( analeptique ) regimen. 
After some time the wounds of the scrotum became tolerably 
well healed, and the colt recovered his appetite and vigour; but 
his sight was gone: amaurosis was established, which resisted 
every treatment we could adopt. 
