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CASTRATION IN REFERENGC TO RIGS. 
The colt had been at grass but a few days, when the proprietor 
of the pasture came to me, and complained that I had turned a 
stallion among his mares ; and that there were such mischievous 
and dangerous gambols going on among them, that he was fearful 
for the consequences. I lost no time in going to the field myself; 
and finding matters as he had represented them, I resolved on 
having my colt fetched up into the stable. I delayed, however, 
doing so until the following day; and the result was, that my colt 
had during the night been so violently assaulted with the hind 
legs of the mares upon his breast, that his pectoral muscles, from 
tumefaction, could hardly perform the office of progression in 
the difficult walk he had (about a mile) from the pasture to the 
stable. 
On his arrival home I had to bleed, and physic, and foment 
him, to abate and disperse all the contusion and consequent 
tumefaction in his breast and fore limbs. Being well once more, 
I determined on running no further risk, and accordingly turned 
him into a grass paddock by himself. 
Four months from the date of performing the operation, I took 
him into the stable with other horses—a double-stalled stable, 
containing a gelding in the next stall to him, and three mares in 
the stalls opposite—in which he has stood ever since with all the 
quietude of the gelding himself; and besides that, has been 
lunged and used every day, indiscriminately with mares and 
geldings, without evincing (hitherto) any of his former amorous 
propensities. He has not yet attained high condition—having 
been, from time to time, ailing from catarrh, fever, &c.: whether 
any stallion-like desires will be engendered by that state, 
remains, perhaps, yet to be proved. 1 do not myself, however, 
apprehend any such return; although it is contrary to old and 
general notions, and even to the opinions of several well informed 
and experienced veterinarians, with whom I have held converse 
on the subject. 
P.S. Will the other testicle ever make its appearance? 
February 16tlj, 1833. 
To the Editors of “ The Veter mar ianJ^ 
Gentlemen, 
Having been a reader of The Veterinarian from the 
first, and thinking that it is high time for me to make some 
return for the information I have derived from it, I send you the 
following cases of practice ; and though they may not be either 
new or extraordinary with other practitioners, I beg that you 
will receive them as an earnest of my good will and intentions, 
and am your obedient servant, 
A Veterinary Surgeon. 
