CANCEROUS GROWTH FROM A HORSE > S EYE. 395 
Stourbridge. He had been in the present owner’s possession 
for more than three years. At the time of his purchase he 
was perfectly free from any abnormal growth or tumour 
whatever, but, to use the owner’s expression, he had lost his 
near eye, which bore the appearance of having been knocked 
out. 
About ten months before his death a small tumour or en¬ 
largement was observed springing up, as it were, out of the 
orbital cavity; but no notice was taken of it, and con¬ 
sequently no means were resorted to for its removal or to 
prevent its growth, so that it gradually increased in size till 
it protruded externally and covered a great portion of the 
near side of the face, causing much absorption of the sur¬ 
rounding osseous structure, especially the lower part of the 
os frontis, the orbital arch, and the os lachrvmalis, becoming 
in ten months’ time so disgusting a spectacle, and so painful 
to the animal, that it was deemed expedient to have him 
destroyed. Until within the last two or three months it had 
made no perceptible difference to his appetite, hut latterly the 
pain from it became so great and produced so much irrita¬ 
tion in his system generally, that the animal gradually lost 
flesh, while the constant drain on his constitution, from the 
cancerous discharge, tended considerably to debilitate and 
weaken him, so much so, indeed, that he became of no use 
whatever to his owner, who finally had him destroyed. I am 
sorry to add that the horse was killed without my know¬ 
ledge, although I had expressed a wish to examine the 
tumour when he was dead. I was, however, able to ob¬ 
tain a little information respecting it, and the following 
is a— 
Description of the growth .—When it was removed from the 
surrounding tissues, and on a sectional division being made 
through its structure, it appeared of a firm, solid, con¬ 
sistence, and weighed altogether about two pounds. There 
were several foul ulcerations in the integument surrounding 
the growth, discharging a thin, offensive fluid, which, running 
down the face of the horse, was a constant nuisance to him, 
and, indeed, to all who had anything to do with the animal. 
The disease did not affect sympathetically, or in any other 
wav, the off or sound eye. The growth was of a highly 
vascular nature, and kept constantly cicatrizing over, but 
afterwards broke out again, presenting a foul, ulcerated 
surface. It was of an irregular shape, but the principal por¬ 
tion of it was externally of a rounded form. 
Not being requested to do anything for the horse, no treat¬ 
ment of any kind was attempted so as to mitigate the disease 
