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p. 276). The result is excellent, an improvement being 

 manifested almost at once. This, too, is permanent.' 



The following three cases are illustrative of the benefit 

 which results from castration in these cases : 



Case i. — The patient, a toy black and tan terrier, about four years old, 

 suffered from strangury, the urine being very scanty in amount, and only 

 passed with great difficulty. An unsuccessful attempt was made to pass 



Fig. 169. — An Enlarged Suppurating Prostate Gland, taken from an 

 Irish Terrier, Seven Years old, suffering from Perineal Hernia, 

 in which it was included. 



the catheter, and a rectal examination revealed a distinct enlargement of 

 the prostate gland. Castration was performed under chloroform, and six 

 days later urination was free and regular, and the catheter could be passed 

 without any trouble. The prostate, too, was perceptibly less. Within 

 three weeks it had become of quite normal size, and there was no return 

 of the symptoms. 



1 W. M. Scott, VeUrinarian, June, 1897; HdbA&y, Journal of Coni- 

 parative Pathology and Therapeutics, vol. ix., p. 336. 



