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tion relieved, there can be no security against its speedy 

 return. 



Under its more virulent form it is not to be thus easily 

 got rid of, though even then it is to be subdued. If 

 there be much pain, I inject the lotion up the sheath, 

 and by closing the orifice around the point of the sy- 

 ringe, endeavor to pass the fluid over the whole of the 

 interior. Sometimes the pain or irritation is excessive : 

 I then combine sedatives with the lotions, and their 

 strength I increase as the occasion warrants; but the 

 non-professional person had better use none more potent 

 than one drachm of tincture of opium to every ounce of 

 lotion. When the pain, decreasing, allows the penis to 

 be protruded, if any sprouting fungus or proud flesh is 

 upon it, a pair of scissors should be used to snip it off. 

 Some bleeding will ensue, but a little burnt alum will 

 generally stay it ; though, if allowed to continue, I have 

 thought the local depletion was beneficial, and it has 

 never to my knowledge been attended with danger. The 

 burnt alum I use in powder, and I prefer it in these 

 cases to the lunar caustic ; which gives more pain ; acts 

 less immediately as a styptic, and is not so satisfactory 

 in its subsequent effects, and, as the animal can hardly 

 be kept from licking the place, it may possibly be objec- 

 tionable on that account. Such treatment usually is 

 beneficial ; and the only further direction to be added 

 concerns such minor points as reason probably would 

 not need to have specially pointed out. 



When the hairs at the orifice are matted together, it is 



