HEMORRHAGE CONSEQUENT ON CASTRATION. 709 
History .—The mare was bred on the farm, stabled on the 
1st of May, 1859, and worked up to the end of November, 
when she became sluggish and would not answer to the whip. 
She appeared afraid to walk at the same pace as the other 
horses, and if urged on, the carter observed that she trembled 
like a leaf, and oftentimes nearly fell. She fed, however, as well 
as the others, but always appeared unthrifty. My attention 
had not been previously called to her when attending at the 
farm on other cases. 
I informed the owner that there was no chance of her 
surviving long, but at his request she was treated, and 1 con¬ 
sequently administered a sedative consisting of Pulv. 
Digitalis, gr. xx, et Ext. Hyoscyami, 5h, in haustus. Before 
leaving, Mr. Robinson likewise expressed a wish for me to 
visit the animal again the next morning, as early as possible. 
May 17th, 10 a.m.—Arriving at the farm, I was informed 
that the mare had died at 1 i o’clock last night. She walked 
round the box three times, and then dropped down dead. 
The carcase being removed to the kennel, the owner ac- 
accompanied me to th q post-mortem. On exposing the con¬ 
tents of the abdomen, they appeared normal; the lungs, 
however, were congested, and the heart was found to be of an 
enormous size. The left ventricle was of its natural dimension, 
but both auricles were enlarged and somewhat attenuated. The 
walls of the right ventricle were very much dilated and as thin 
as tissue paper ; it likewise contained a solid fibrinous tumour, 
of great magnitude. 
The owner was perfectly astonished that an animal could 
live and work, even on a farm, with such a diseased organ. 
I am afraid to say what the weight of the heart and the 
tumour was, as 1 had no opportunity of ascertaining the fact 
correctly. 
HAEMORRHAGE CONSEQUENT ON CASTRATION. 
By the Same. 
A two-year-old black cart stallion was operated on by a 
castrator on the evening of the 28th of May, and directly 
the animal was up, the owner noticed him to be bleeding 
freely from both orifices, but being assured by the operator 
“ that it was nothing,” he, too, deemed it to be immaterial. 
However, on the 30th, about 5 p m., finding that the 
haemorrhage still continued, he wished me to see the animal. 
On my reaching the farm I found my patient still bleeding 
from the scrotum, and being satisfied that it was venous 
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