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partly, I presume, from the corpora cavernosa. Having completed the 

 operation and released the animal from the rope, he got up immediately. 

 I had him led into the stable, and though the parts then bled freely, in ten 

 minutes the hemorrhage had ceased, and no untoward symptom after- 

 wards made it appearance." 



Mr. Daws (' Vetebinarian,' vol. xv, p. 38), V.S., London, operated 

 on a cart stallion, twenty years old. He had experienced an attack of 

 " spasms of the bowels." This had left continued erection of the penis 

 with constant desire to void urine. The penis became enormously 

 swollen and hard from interstitial deposition, and was beset with " many 

 irregular unhealthy ulcerations," It was determined to amputate. To 

 prevent the retraction of the stump of the amputated penis, Mr. Daws 

 " passed a straight-pointed scalpel through the substance of the penis, a 

 little above the urethra, and, at one incision, divided the corpora caver- 

 nosa and the vessels on its dorsum, close to the prepuce." The hemor- 

 rhage from the pudic arteries was not so much as might have been 

 expected, and was speedily arrested by the judicious application of the 

 actual cautery. The urethra and corpus spongiosum were now divided, 

 and the stump immediately retracted. 



Mr. Hutton ('Veterinarian,' vol. xv, p. 199), V.S., Winterton, at- 

 tended a pony with " a large tumour, of a schirrous nature, on and quite 

 round the lower and membranous part of the penis." He removed the 

 tumour, " cutting into the integuments nearly round in so doing." He 

 then brought the edges of the skin in apposition to each other, and con- 

 fined them by sutures. Under physic, low diet, &c., the patient soon 

 recovered. 



Mr. Bailey (* Veterinarian,' vol. xv. p. 451), late 1st R.I. Lancers, 

 was called to a cart-gelding, ten years old, " which was unable to retract 

 his penis from an enlargement at the end of it." He had " extensive 

 schirrus of the glans penis and prepuce : the penis dangling between the 

 hocks, presenting an exceedingly disgusting spectacle " I recommended 

 amputation. " I passed a ligature about four or five inches above the 

 schirrus (which allowed of an assistant more securely grasping the 

 stump that would be left), and then proceeded to abscission of the ex- 

 tremity by a sweeping stroke of a long bistoury through the substance 

 of the penis, about three inches above the afiected part. After due appli- 

 cation of the cautery, I removed the ligature, and hemorrhage from the 

 larger vessels being arrested, I allowed the horse to rise." The case 

 did well. 



Mr. Dyer's case (' Veterinarian,' vol. xviii, p. 438) was one of warts 

 and chancrous condition of the glans penis, with discharge from it, which 

 rendered amputation advisable. Mr. Dyer excised four incTies of the 

 penis with a bistoury. The part bled profusely afterwards for six hours, 



