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best to snip them away, which will not only remove a 

 present inconvenience, but effectually prevent its recur- 

 rence. The wounds which occasionally cover the ex- 

 terior of the sheath are of no vast importance, or, at 

 all events, they are of secondary consideration. With 

 the healing of the inward sores they mostly depart ; but 

 their disappearance will be hastened, and the comfort of 

 the animal improved, if, when the injection is used, they 

 are at the same time smeared with some mild ointment. 

 Tnat composed of camphor, &c., and to be found de- 

 scribed at page 2G5, does very well for such a purpose ; 

 but any other of a gentle nature would probably answer 

 as well. 



Soreness of the scrotum is very common, and I have 

 seen it in every description of dog. I attribute it to 

 derangement of the digestion ; never having witnessed it 

 in animals that were not thus affected, and not having 

 been able to discover it had any more immediate origin. 

 It mostly appears first as a redness, which soon becomes 

 covered with small pimples, that break and discharge a 

 thin watery fluid. The fluid coagulates, and a thin scab 

 covers the surface. The scab is generally detached, 

 being retained only by the straggling hairs that grow 

 upon the bag. The scab being removed, shows a moist 

 and unhealthy patch, the margin of which is of a faint 

 dirty red color. 



This condition of the scrotum yields, in the first in- 

 stance, to simple applications j but, should nothing be 

 done, it will continue bad for some period, and may in- 



