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tion has been resumed, and nature will subsequently per- 

 form her office without assistance. 



The bladder that has been relieved, may require the 

 care of the surgeon a second time; but no officiousness 

 should be indulged in that respect. Let the necessity be 

 present before the operation is resorted to ; and the need 

 for its adoption can be so accurately ascertained, that 

 there is no excuse whatever for needless interference. 

 The operation is attended with no immediate danger or 

 subsequent ill consequences, that I am aware of; but it 

 is particularly recommended by the fact, that in the dog 

 it is not accompanied with that pain, which in man 

 usually provokes exclamation, sometimes causes fainting, 

 and not unfrequently induces irritability of the membrane 

 lining the canal. 



The testicles are occasionally the sources of annoyance 

 to the proprietor. In one instance a high-bred dog was 

 sold, the person who bought the animal making the pur- 

 chase with a view to breeding from it. Disappointment 

 followed, for no sexual desire could be excited ; and as a 

 stock-dog, the beast was useless. An examination was 

 then made, and the scrotum was discovered to contain no 

 glands. 



A most infamous fraud was now accused against him 

 who had sold the dog ; and as dog-dealers are not so 

 respectable, and are almost as little credited as horse- 

 dealers, any charge imputing dishonesty required no evi- 

 dence to substantiate it. An infamous villain was con- 

 victed of having castrated the dog before he parted with 



