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quarts of oats daily to keep her in condition. Her powers of 
assimilation did not seem to be what they should. Last sum¬ 
mer she was at Lowell with a sucking - foal. The owner start¬ 
ed to take her to Haverhill, but she only went as far as Law¬ 
rence when she was taken sick, and was finally destroyed. 
Principal symptom loss of power in hind legs, also had hmma- 
turea at first, but recovered from this condition before being 
killed. The only abnormality other than those already de¬ 
scribed upon post-mortem was a serous cyst on the outside 
of one kidney. Dr. Winchester never knew of this mare 
having colic, but she evidently did have loss of nutrition. j 
Dr. Peters showed a small tumor removed from a horse’s 
breast, which proved to be a dermoid cyst containing hairs 
and what appeared to be broken down epithelial cells when 
it was cut open. 
Dr. Howard reported a case of scrotal hernia in a gelding. 
The animal was a bay gelding, six years old, driven every 
day since his arrival in the city twelve days previously. No 
history of previous trouble of any kind. On the seventh day 
the driver thought he was driving a stallion, because of an 
enlargement noticed by him in the inguinal region. After 
noticing the swelling, he was driven five miles farther, and 
upon returning home the animal laid down and was quiet for 
three hours. At the end of that time slight pain was noticed, 
and a veterinarian called. He made a diagnosis of hernia, 
and applied a truss made of a piece of blanket, and a favorable 
prognosis was given. Dr. Howard was called fifteen hours 
later, found a swelling the size of a peck basket, constant 
pain, animal pulseless, vacant stare, temperature 102 * 4 . Ad¬ 
vised his destruction. Post-mortem showed seven feet of in¬ 
testine passed through* the inguinal ring strangulated. 
Dr. LeBaw remembered seeing a case of scrotal hernia in 
a gelding in New York. 
Dr. Osgood once saw a three-year-old colt with a scrotal 
hernia four months after castration. He threw the colt, re¬ 
duced the hernia, applied clamps to the scrotum, and the ani¬ 
mal made a complete recovery. 
Dr. Parker reported a case of pneumo-enteritis in a horse, 
