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R. WOOD. 
SINGULAR CASE OF DISEASED TESTICLES. 
By R. Wood, V. S. 
(Read before the United States 
Veterinarian Association.) 
June 17, ray attention was called to a black stallion, 20 years 
old, which had been worked in an order-wagon for a grocery 
establishment for ten or twelve years, and up to that time had 
been in good health, when all at once the appetite became poor. 
The owner called my attention to a swelling of the off testicle, 
which he for the first time had seen that morning while grooming 
him. He informed me that the animal at the time he bought him 
had had one of his testicles removed, but the other could not be 
found. Finding by examination a small testes on the near side, and 
on the opposite side apparently a large tumor, I supposed the case 
to be one of disease of the end of the spermatic cord, and that by 
treatment it would possibly end in the formation of pus. I pre¬ 
scribed warm fomentations three times each day. On the 19th I 
was informed the animal was better, and was eating well and at 
work. Dec. 10th my services were again required; found the 
animal much thinner in flesh, appetite nearly gone, and upon ex¬ 
amination found what I diagnosed as schirrous testicle, exceeding 
hard and painful, and the animal unable to rise without help. I 
was then informed that he had not been able to work for several 
months, and that they thought him worthless, but disliked to kill 
him, he being a pet of the family. But becoming tired of caring 
for him, sent for me to kill him. He was accordingly shot; the 
testicle removed; the small one weighing ounces, the large 
one lbs.—[The appearance and microscopical examination of 
the two organs will be given in our next issue. The small testicle 
is atrophied and the other in all probability a large sarcocele. 
—Ed. 
