ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPERMATIC CORD. 
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sucketh onely that, and none other. Yf you take awaye the 
pigge, the pappe drieth, as Plinie and experience shevveth.” 
The colic is a tolerably tractable disease in the horse, not 
always so in the ox; yet, with old Barnaby as our preceptor, 
those of us who live in the country need not to be much puzzled. 
“ The colicke, or paine in the bellie, in oxen, is putt awaye in 
the beholdinge of geese in the water, specially duck-es; for the 
sight of the ducke, as Vegetius and Columella says, is a presente 
remedie to this beaste.” 
One extract more from Master Barnaby, which may amuse il 
it does not instruct some good country housewives, many of 
whose husbands we know are our readers ; it relates to the manu¬ 
facture of cheese:— 
“ Cheese is alsoe made of the milke of cattell; the milke 
being poured into a vessell of earth, putting into it a little ren- 
nett, the quantitie of a wallnutte in a great vessell of milke, 
whereby it turneth into curd. Varro dooth better like the ren- 
nctt of the levret or the kydde, then the lambs; howbeit we com¬ 
monly use the calves rennet. Others use sundrie other meanes 
only with heat, warming it in tinne vessells, and after dipping 
these vessells in colde water, which is the sweetest and cleanliest 
maner. Others put in the seede of wylde saffron, and being so 
turned, the whey dooth greatly purge fieame. Others againe use 
the milke of the figge-tree, and then dooth the whey purge both 
choler and fleame. Some turne it with oxymell or syrope of 
vinegar, which is of all other wayes the holsomest. Some, be¬ 
sides, use the little skinnes of birdes guysardes, and others the 
flowres of wylde thystles and hartichockes.” 
A CASE OF ENLARGEMENT OF THE SPERMATIC 
CORD AFTER CASTRATION. 
By Mr. Edwin Drake, V. S., Barnstable , Devon. 
Judy 4th last, I was desired to attend a gelding belonging 
to the Rev. F. Hole, of Georgeham, which he stated had been 
castrated six years ago. From that time there had been a con¬ 
tinued enlargement of the left spermatic cord. It discharged 
some pus two years ago, then closed again, and gradually in¬ 
creased up to this time. There was now considerable inflamma¬ 
tion in the part; the swelling extended from the scrotum to the 
near thigh ; the horse appeared in much pain, and kept stamping 
his near hind foot, and looking at the left flank. I ordered the 
part to be poulticed, and the horse to be kept on mashes, 8cc., 
