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two or three weeks after the operation of castration, they 

 should be broken down and the cord pushed up into the 

 inguinal canal. In this way schirrous cord may often be 

 prevented. When champignon is of short standing — of 

 two or three months, for instance — its extirpation may 

 easily be effected; but in old cases of long standing, in 

 which the excrescence has, perhaps, attained the size of a 

 man's head, new bloodvessels have formed, etc., the opera- 

 tion becomes one of considerable difficulty and danger, the 

 haemorrhage resulting from the removal of such a growth 

 usually being of a most alarming character. 



Si/m-ptoms. — Great irritation exists in connection with the 

 cord and the surrounding structures, which causes a severe 

 drain upon the vital energies of the animal. He gradu- 

 ally falls off in condition and becomes dull and listless, and 

 there is usually stiffness or lameness observed during pro- 

 gression, with many other signs of pain. In some cases 

 there is a tendency to suppuration, fever, great debility, 

 exhaustion, and death. 



Treatment. — As it is evident that the symptoms presented 

 of irritation, pain, etc., are due to the presence of the 

 fungoid growth upon the free extremity of the cord, it 

 becomes equally apparent that the removal of the source of 

 irritation will be followed by cessation of the symptoms, 

 and a cure eftected. Hence the animal should be given a 

 day or two of preparation, and the system got in as good 

 condition as possible. The patient should be cast and 

 firmly secured, the adhesions between the fungous growth 

 and the scrotum should be divided, and all other adhesions 

 existing between the cord and neighbouring structures 

 should also be broken down. The practitioner should make 

 it a point to free the whole of the mass from the surround- 

 ing tissues, which, having done, he may proceed as follows 

 to remove : Place the clamp upon the cord above the dis- 



