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CASE OF DROPPING AFTER CALVING. 
and desired that I might be informed when the swelling again 
suppurated. On the 20th, Mr. Hole told me that there had 
been a great discharge of pus, and desired that I would see it on 
the following day. Having thrown the horse, I felt a large 
tumour in the scrotum somewhat resembling a cone with its base 
below, and its apex terminating in the abdominal ring. I then se¬ 
cured the tumour in my left hand, and made a longitudinal inci¬ 
sion along the scrotum, as in castrating, and with great difficulty 
separated it from the tumour, to which it was firmly united by 
dense cellular membrane and numerous bloodvessels: many of 
the veins appeared to be quite in a varicose state. I then drew it 
out as far as possible, fastened the clams on the cord above its 
apex, cut it off, and cauterized the cord as in castrating. On 
laying open the tumour, which weighed nearly a pound, I found 
about two ounces of thick pus in its centre ; its inner surface was 
indurated, but it was softer and more vascular towards its external 
portion. It appears to me to have been caused by the cord being 
left too long, and which, having united with the incision made in 
the scrotum, prevented the free discharge of pus. Mr. Hole desired 
the gelder to leave more of the cord than usual, in order (to use 
a provincial term) to give the horse pluck, and the animal had pos¬ 
sessed, after castration, the same desire to cover as an entire horse. 
A CASE OF DROPPING AFTER CALVING. 
By the same. 
On looking over the August number of the last year’s Vete¬ 
rinarian, I saw an article on dropping after calving, by Mr. 
Leaver, of Willingdon, in which he mentions having met with a 
case a fortnight after calving. This induced me to send you an 
account of the following case, which I treated last December, 
and which occurred ten days after parturition. On the 13th I 
was desired to attend a cow, belonging to Mr. Andrews, of 
Pilton. He said that she had calved on the 3d, was at the 
time very fat, but had gradually lost flesh, become very weak, 
and had a constant discharge of white thick mucus from the 
vagina. The night before her illness he left her to all appearances 
as usual. I saw her at ten a.m. lying and groaning loudly; the 
pulse scarcely perceptible, but very quick; the extremities cold, 
and the nostrils, eyes, and mouth deeply tinged with yellow. 
She was very weak, and had made no dung since the day before. 
I gave her hyd. submur. 3ij, g. myrrh, pulv. sodee carb. %ij, 
with hot water sufficient for a drink; and had her flanks rubbed 
