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I found the cyst firmly attached to the skin in fron 

 especially in the locality where it had been so frequentl 

 lanced or tapped. This adhesion being removed, it becam 

 then necessary to separate its further attachments, whicl 

 as the knife steadily proceeded, revealed more and moi 

 coniplications. 

 ~ Leaving the jugular veins and carotid arteries by almo: 

 a hair's breadth, and fully exposed, I came at last in vie 

 of the trachea, and here it was found that the injury ha 

 arisen which gave rise to the formation of the cyst, thei 

 having been a fracture of some of the cartilaginous ring 

 which Mr. Marston informed me he attributed to a kic 

 the dog received in the neck. Having got well to tt 

 base of the tumour, the patient was placed on his feet, i 

 order that it might hang pendulent whilst a ligature w£ 

 drawn round it, and it was then finally excised, bein 

 about the size of an orange, and containing two ounces an 

 a half of tenacious, glairy matter. I closed the extern; 

 wound with sutures, applied antiseptic dressing with 

 bandage, and, like a little warrior, " The Colonel " wei 

 away, evidently satisfied with the result of the somewh; 

 bloody operation he had encountered. 



The four following days he came for surgical attentic 

 to the wound, each visit showing a satisfactory conditic 

 of the part operated upon, and he left Wolverhampton c 

 the 23 rd with every prospect of soon being well, whic 

 prognosis a subsequent letter from his master confirmed. 

 In such a situation, and so intricate i^ its attachment 

 the excision of this cyst required the most careful, patier 

 delicate, and watchful dissection, the more so as tl 

 administration of chloroform was not admissible ; and tl 

 heroic manner in which this animal behaved during thi 

 painful period adds one more link to the chain of testimon 

 recorded of the courageous attributes of the canine race. 



