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Mr. F. J. Taylor, M.R.C.V.S. {Veterinary Record, vol. xvi., p. 505), has 

 recorded an interesting case of this operation in a fox-terrier, the animal 

 having had the penis bone fractured when fighting. The bone was 

 amputated at about its centre, and the patient was alive eighteen months 

 afterwards and apparently suffering no inconvenience from the loss of 

 the organ. 



Phimosis. 



By this term is meant a constricted condition of the end 

 of the prepuce, whereby the penis cannot be exposed. It 

 is occasionally met with in puppies, and is nearly always 

 congenital. It causes the animal a great deal of annoyance, 

 especially as it grows older, and is apt to cause irritability 

 and pain. The only remedy lies in surgical interference, 

 which may take the form of either a simple incision or a 

 circumcision. 



Sometimes a congenital malformation or arrest of develop- 

 ment will be met with, such as is shown in Fig. 173, in 

 which the end of the prepuce is closed, and the penis finds 

 its exit through an abnormal opening some little distance 

 from the place. Such a case would require a combination 

 of the second operation detailed below and Cherry's opera- 

 tion (p. 49). 



In this case, recorded by Professor Taylor in the Veterinary Record 

 (vol. XV., p. 447), there was an oval slit, through which the penis pro- 

 truded, in the prepuce, and a few hairs were growing on the corpora 

 cavernosa. In front of this slit there was a fold of skin representing the 

 end of the prepuce, but there was no apparent orifice. The scrotum only 

 contained one testicle. 



Operations — i. Simple Incision. — With the patient hobbled 

 or held in the dorsal position, a longitudinal or V-shaped 

 incision is made of sufficient length to allow of the protrusion 

 of the penis. The edges are cauterized in order to retard 

 healing, and, if sufficient has been cut out, the wound gives 

 no further anxiety. 



2. Circumcision. — In this operation the end of the prepuce 



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