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given. The second day the parts may be washed with 1 quart of witch- 

 hazel (extract), 2 drams sugar of lead, and 1 ounce laudanum, or the 

 cold water irrigations may be continued if the active inflammation per- 

 sists. In case the swelling continues hard and resistant it may be 

 pricked at the most prominent points to the depth of one-third of 

 an inch, with a lancet first dipped in dilute carbolic acid, and the 

 whole surface should be washed frequently with chlorine water or 

 other antiseptic. 



When softening occurs in the center of a hard mass and fluctuation 

 can be felt between two fingers pressed on different parts of such soft- 

 ening, it should be freely opened to let out the putrid pus and the cavity 

 should be syringed often with chlorine water. 



In bad cases extensive sloughs of dead skin, of the whole wall of the 

 sheath, and even of the penis, may take place, which will require care- 

 ful antiseptic treatment. The soaking of the urine into the inflamed 

 and softened tissue, and the setting up of putrefactive action not only 

 endangers great destruction of the tissues from putrid inflammation, 

 but even threatens life itself from a general blood poisoning (septicae- 

 mia.) Every case should have skillful treatment to meet its various 

 phases, but in the severe ones this is most urgently demanded. 



INFLAMMATION OF THE URETHRA GONORRHCEA. 



Like other males, the bull sometimes suffers from inflammation of the 

 canal which conveys the urine through the penis, and forms a conse- 

 quent whitish inuco-puralent discharge. It may have originated in 

 gravels, the excitement of too frequent service, infection from a cow 

 with leucorrhrea, or from extension of inflammation from the sheath. 

 Beside the oozing of the whitish liquid from the end of the penis and 

 sheath, there is tenderness and pain when handled, and while there is 

 no actual arrest of the urine, its flow is subject to frequent voluntary 

 checks, as the scalding liquid irritates the tender surface. If recognized 

 before the discharge sets in a dose of Ig pounds of Epsom salts, and 

 local warm fomentations would be appropriate. After the onset of the 

 whitish discharge a daily injection into the penis of a solution of 20 

 grains of permanganate of potash in a pint of water will be beneficial. 



WARTS AND PAPILLARY GROWTHS <>N THE PENIS. 



These arc not frequent in bull or ox. They may interfere with the 

 protrusion of the organ from its sheath or with service, and always give 

 rise to a bad smelling discharge. They may be twisted off with the 

 thumb and forefinger, or cut off with a pair of scissors and the seat 

 burned with a pencil of lunar caustic. To got hold of the penis in the 

 bull bring him up to a cow. In the ox it will bo necessary to push it 

 out by manipulation through the Hheath. In difficult cases the narrow 

 opening of the sheath may be slit open. 

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