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than it was at first. The operation for paraphymosis con- 

 sists in passing a curved sharp-pointed bistoury underneath 

 the stricture, and dividing it, and doing this in as many 

 places and to as great an extent as is required for the com- 

 plete liberation of the yard. Any hemorrhage that may 

 follow will prove beneficial in facilitating the reduction, and 

 should therefore be encouraged by fomentation ; afterwards 

 poultices will be required.^' 



AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS. 



This operation, formidable to the animal if not to the 

 operator, has been performed several times in this country 

 as well as in France, it being one which extreme cases ap- 

 pear to render expedient, sometimes necessary. A state of 

 disease, either of the penis or of its preputial covering, such 

 as has resisted, and seems likely to resist, all ordinary 

 treatment, or, indeed, such as would probably occupy any 

 unreasonable length of time to cure, might warrant a re- 

 course to amputation. Warts or excrescences, or enlarge- 

 ments of any description, intractable either from their 

 magnitude or number, or from leaving behind them, after 

 being removed, a disposition to reproduction ; extensive 

 ulcerations of a phagedenic, foul, malignant character; 

 paralysis or relaxation; or, in fact, any condition of -parts 

 opposing the withdrawal of a protruded penis within its 

 sheath, may reasonably call for the performance of such an 

 operation. Different methods, regulated by circumstances, 

 have been pursued in the performance of the operation, 

 which, as well as the diseases for which it has been found 

 requisite, will probably be best shown by the recital of the 

 cases themselves. 



Huzard (senior) appears to have been one of the first veterinarians to 

 practise this operation. His case was that of a gelding, whose penis was 

 covered with chancres and warts. Calculating that he should have 

 dangerous hemorrhage, and foreseeing the difficulty, nay, impossibility, of 

 recovering the remainder of the penis once retracted within the sheath, 



