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OVARIAN TUMOUR IN A MARE. 
and reached camp about an hour and a half after we did. 
We halted for a day; the heel was very sore, but he marched 
daily with us and was not again affected, I may as well state 
that I always blister the heel in these cases, as it makes the 
horse keep his leg forward and flexed. Those who have to 
treat these cases will do well to try it. 
OVARIAN TUMOUR IN A MARE. 
By W. A. Wheatley, M.R.C.V.S., Reading. 
Accompanying this is a morbid specimen, a description of 
which may prove worthy a space in the next number of the 
Veterinarian . The subject whence it was taken was an aged 
half-bred mare. 
I was called on the evening of July 26th, at nine o’clock, 
to see her. She was first observed to be ill about two or 
three hours before. Her attendant, thinking that she had an 
attack of colic, had just given her an antispasmodic draught. 
Upon my arrival I observed the following symptoms : 
Extremities deathly cold, pulse very small and quick, 
breathing hurried, profuse perspiration, abdomen exceedingly 
tympanitic. Upon making an examination per rectum, which 
was empty for about two feet, I detected a laceration in that 
gut, and a little further on there existed an exceedingly hard 
substance. 
I communicated this to the owner, and stated to him that 
I considered the case to be quite hopeless. He at once, very 
humanely, ordered the animal to be destroyed, and this was 
done forthwith. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the 
post-mortem examination, but the parts sent to you were put 
by for my inspection this morning. I find them to be dis¬ 
eased ovaries, the larger one weighing seven pounds. 
This appears to have been attached to the rectum , and by its 
own weight to have torn away from the gut, and thus caused 
the rent I discovered, and which would have terminated the 
existence of the animal. 
The mare had never been knowm to have been ill pre¬ 
viously. All the other viscera appeared quite healthy. The 
stomach and bow r els w ere loaded w ith food. 
