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abdominal muscles, when it may be dissected out without any 

 danger of opening' the peritoneum, or of wounding- large ar- 

 terial branches. In dividing the integuments, care should be 

 taken to destroy but little of their surface, except such as may 

 be actually diseased ; for, by detaching the tumoui: neatly 

 from the integuments' by a careful dissection, and by not re- 

 moving- inteo-uments and all, the wound much sooner closes, 

 and the cicatrix which follows is necessarily smaller, and less 

 corrugated. As the excision proceeds, the blood vessels 

 should be taken up ; and, when the tumour is removed, two 

 or three stitches should be introduced into the opposite edges 

 of the skin to bring them together ; by which the cure will 

 be considerably expedited. These stitches, however, ulcerate 

 out in three or four days ; but they usually have, by this 

 time, performed their office, and the remaining wound will 

 require only common dressing, with the addition of bandages 

 sufficient to prevent the dog from interrupting the healing by 

 his nose and tongue. 



Wens and Scirrhous Tumours are not confined to the 

 teats only ; nor are dogs without them, as well as bitches. 

 There is scarcely a part of the body but what I have seen 

 these wen-like enlargements on ; the treatment of which in 

 nowise differs from the plans already laid down. 



The Testicles in dogs are sometimes also the seat of scir- 

 rhous induration. In such cases, one or both of these glands 

 become hard, painful, and rather tender, with a shining ful- 

 ness of the scrotum. If the tumour does not readily give 

 way to the application of the active discutients that are re- 

 commended for the mammary scirrhi of bitches, try the eflfect 

 of a regular administration of burnt sponge, as recommended 

 under bronchocele. In some cases, mercurial frictions have 

 succeeded ; but, in default of these, proceed, without delay, 

 to castrate, to prevent the disease from extending up the 

 spermatic chord.— ^ee Castration. 



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