444 TUBERCULIZATION Of THE PLEXUS CHOUOIDES. 
pulling and tearing at the cord. A ligature—of fine whip¬ 
cord I prefer—is now passed around the vessels and tightly 
tied, then the testicle is removed, leaving six or eight inches 
of the ligature attached to the knot around the cord, which 
separates from its attachments in the course of from eight to 
eighteen days. In the mean time, the ends, from their 
length, keep the orifices in the scrotum open, so as to allow 
of the free exit of the secretion from w ithin. 
I will not go the length that many do to assert that no 
consecutive inflammatory action supervenes after some of 
these methods have been adopted, because no reasonable 
educated man can deny the fact that it is essentially neces¬ 
sary to promote the healing process. 
The after-treatment, with unbroken colts, may be entirely 
dispensed with, their exercise in the strawyard and meadow 
being all that is required. 
With those horses that have been more highly domesti¬ 
cated, a previous preparation, both before and after the 
operation, is necessary, by restricting the full diet, and in¬ 
stituting one of a laxative character, w ith the usual amount 
of walking exercise, combined with occasional ablutions. 
I do trust that the time is not far distant w hen the cautery 
will be entirely abolished from practice in this as well as in 
other manipulations, for even its application to the extremities, 
in the indiscriminate manner it is applied, is productive of 
no real benefit. It only compels proprietors to give their 
animals a greater amount of rest, for effecting a benefit to 
lame horses, than otherwise they wxmld do. 
ENLARGEMENT AND TUBERCULIZATION OF 
THE PLEXUS CHOROIDES. 
By J. Vick, M.R.C.V.S., Gloucester. 
O n Friday last, Mr. Holford, an agriculturist, from the 
neighbouring county, Worcestershire, came to me, stating 
that he had a young and valuable horse lying dead at an inn 
in this city; that the horse w 7 as ridden in about ten miles in 
the morning, and he believed him to be then perfectly sound 
and well. He had had him in his possession about fourteen 
months, and that he wished me to make a post-mortem exami¬ 
nation of him. The ostler stated that he found the horse 
dragging back in the stall; he rushed to the halter and cut 
it, when the animal immediately expired. 
