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treatment consists of removal by amputation with knife or 

 scissors when suitable, those of diffused character being 

 freely as well as regularly dressed with caustic potash, 

 nitrate of silver, or the mineral acids. Acetic acid has, 

 however, special preference. Subsequently great care is 

 required in order to avoid the injury of adjacent struc- 

 tures, which the ignorant in these essentials are apt to 

 ignore. 



Amputation of the Penis may be required as a 

 result of the consequences just referred to, or by reason 

 of abscess from neglected warts, cancer, &c., an operation 

 calling for care and skill, which the qualified canine 

 surgeon only can be expected to possess. 



Scrotal Inflammation. — The bag or covering of the 

 testicles is Hable to become inflamed, and under circum- 

 stances of neglect, undue plethora, or other adverse states 

 of the system, the disease is aggravated, and the tissues 

 assume a hard, leathery, or semi- cartilaginous nature, and 

 if wounded or abraided, the process of ulceration is 

 established, and a condition not unlike that of cancer is 

 the inevitable result of all such neglected cases. One of 

 the early causes is probably excessive copulation in 

 animals of a senile condition, an abnormal congestion of 

 the tissues being established. The scrotum is acutely 

 reddened, swollen, and sensible, and in a few days the 

 surface is covered with pimples. These subsequently 

 burst and discharge a thin fluid, which accumulates, and 

 drying, forms a thick encrustation, but ultimately falls off 

 and exposes an acutely inflamed and sensitive surface 

 beneath. Further neglect ensures rapid ulceration, con- 

 tinued enlargement with malformation, and finally drying, 

 with change to a cartilaginous state of the whole of the 

 scrotum ; or the parts may remain in the ulcerative 

 condition until death carries off the patient. 



Treatment. — Brisk cathartics to open the bowels at 

 once, with one to four or five leeches to the inflamed 

 scrotum, and after the lapse of twenty-four hours diligent 

 bathing with hot water will be beneficial. When the 

 pimples have formed apply frequently glycerine, to which 

 boracic acid is added in the proportion of ten to fifteen 



