498 EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
You have, doubtless, tried it, and perhaps most of your 
readers have performed the operation. However, at the risk 
of telling a twice told tale, I will endeavour to describe the 
mode of scraping . You begin as for castration in the ordi¬ 
nary way. Free the testicle, and grasp it with the left hand ; 
divide the seminal part of the cord, and, with a rough-edged 
knife scrape the vascular cord lengthways, until you scrape 
through it. Simple enough, and speedy too, since from first 
cut to last scrape takes rather less than twenty seconds. I 
have done it in sixteen, and safely, for I never knew a horse 
bleed more than I wanted, and you have a simple wound 
without any foreign substances to deal with. The horses 
stand quiet for three days, being merely rubbed down. On 
the third day, the coagulum is washed away, and the parts 
cleansed, and nothing more is required after than to continue 
to keep them clean. Tetanus is not a frequent sequel to cas¬ 
tration ; though I saw last month you had put a (?) after 
what I wrote: as to the time most likely for an attack, I 
have always found it to come on just as the wound has healed, 
no matter in what part of the body it may be. Those attacks 
arising from castration, generally manifest themselves from 
the fifteenth to the twentieth day ; but I have seen them both 
earlier and later. As a rule, I do not castrate during the hot 
months, nor during the heavy rains. Wounds and ulcers 
generally take on an unhealthy action at those seasons, and 
particularly during rains. But I have operated in every 
month of the year. 
Will Mr. Gavin excuse me, if I say, in any future cases of 
tetanus, ee use camphor ” I think he will find it one of the 
most useful medicines. He will, I venture to say, agree with 
me, that blisters are of no use in tetanus. 
Allow me to make two corrections for you in p. 441 : first 
line, it should b e Bursauttee ; second line, it should be Jcumree. 
I would not take this liberty, but that I do not know if 
Mr. Hodgson be in England or India. I hope I shall see an 
early paper from him. If he can give us a case of either of 
those, or of the cutaneous diseases, he will confer a great 
benefit. 
EXPOSURE OF GLANDERED HORSES. 
The following trial for misdemeanour, consisting in having 
publicly exposed and sold a glandered horse, together with 
some remarks, and the disclosure of certain facts to which 
the said trial has given rise, with some few observations of 
