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exposed to the air becomes irritated and diseased, and a growth 

 is formed on the end of it. 



Treatment. — If this is noticed rig-ht at the time it is very 

 easily checked by bathing- it with warm water, which softens the 

 cut, then take your fing^er with some butter on it, break the cord 

 loose from the skin, shove it back into the bag" and it will soon 

 g-et all right. If it has not been noticed in time, and gets very 

 large, it will soon have to be operated on. Cast the animal and 

 secure him, break the skin from the cord, where it is healed to it, 

 with your finger and thumb, as much as you can ; the parts you 

 cannot break with your finger and thumb cut with a knife until 

 you get the cord all loose, place a clamp on the cord so you will be 

 able to cut all the diseased part off^ below the clamp, leave the clamp 

 on two or three days and remove it, same as after castration, 

 open one end and spread it. The cord may also be taken off witli the 

 ecraseur instead of putting on a clamp, and in some cases it works 

 better than the clamp. After the operation, if the animal swells 

 much, bathe with luke warm water three or four times aday, and after 

 each bathing apply the white lotion. If the point of the sheath is 

 swollen much it is well to tap it in a few places with a sharp 

 penknife to let the watery stuff^ keep dropping out. Feed lots of 

 soft food with boiled flaxseed in it, and give the animal gentle 

 exercise every day. If the case has been allowed to run on until 

 the cord becomes diseased up through the ring in the rim of the 

 belly it is then a hopeless case. 



PERITONITIS FOLLOWING CASTRATION. 



This is inflammation of the lining of the scrotum and the 

 lining of the abdominal or belly cavity. 



This disease is more fully described in connection with the 

 diseases of the bowels. 



Causes. — From too severe medicine being used in the clamps; 

 or from a bungling operation; from the animal standing out in 

 cold east winds or rains; or lying on the damp ground. The 

 inflammation first commences in the lining of the bag or scrotum, 

 and extends up through the ring in the rim of tbj belly and 

 spreads all over the serous membrane lining — the belly cavity. 

 This generally comes on about the third or fourth day after 

 castration. 



Symptoms. — The animal is very dull, will stand around with- 

 out eating, and seems as if he was cold. The cuts are not 



