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REPORTS OF CASES. 
When taken home the wound was almost perfectly closed, 
except towards the inner canthi of the eye, the general condi¬ 
tion of the animal being very satisfactory. But in walking, she 
carries her head sidewise, and looking upwards from the right 
side. A peculiar nervous condition, which was more extensively 
marked during her malady, has so much diminished that its en¬ 
tire disappearance is considered only a matter of time. 
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SARCOMATOUS TUMOR OF THE ABDOMEN IN A STALLION. 
By the Same. 
The subject of this report was an animal of great value, whose 
death was a great loss to the breeding interests of the country. 
The patient, Oxmore, a bay stallion, owned by General Tracy, 
was admitted to the hospital of the college with the following 
During the season of 1884 he covered fyom thirty to thirty- 
five mares, but in July, 1885, he gave his services to one only. 
A few weeks later, some time in August, he had a slight attack 
of colic, from which-he readily recovered. Soon afterwards he 
was observed to have a swelling of the left testicle, which was 
followed by one of the same nature on the right. These swell¬ 
ings assumed considerable dimensions, and soon began to extend 
downwards, until both legs, but principally the left, became in¬ 
volved. Under the treatment of his trainer these seemed almost 
entirely to disappear, but after a time the swelling of the left 
testicle began to change, by alternately disappearing and enlarg¬ 
ing—sometimes present and sometimes absent. 
Dr. Adam and Prof. Law had been applied to for advice, but 
to what effect could not be ascertained in any positive manner. 
When consulted on the subject, Dr. Liautard declined to 
make any positive diagnosis, unless the patient could be exam¬ 
ined, though he stated that it might be a case of either hernia, 
hydrocele or sarcocele. 
The owner then decided to send him to New York, and when 
entered he was immediately submitted to examination. He was 
then, apparently, in perfect health, with all his functions in good 
physiological order. The scrotal region on the left side was con- 
