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free cream-like discharge is established the sweUing will 

 rapidly subside. 



Phymosis and Paeaphymosis. In such cases the penis 

 may be imprisoned within the sheath or protruded and 

 swollen so that it cannot be withdrawn. It may be nec- 

 essary to incise the sheath or scarify the penis and ap- 

 ply cold water and other astriagents, with manipulation to 

 return the protruded organ. 



TuMOBS ON THE Speematic Coed. This results from 

 rough handling ia castrating, from strangulation, or from 

 inflammation consequent on the presence of irritants m the 

 wound or exposure to cold. It may grow for years with- 

 out disabling the animal ; its growth may cease, leaving an 

 inconsiderable thickening on the cord ; it may acquire the 

 size of a large udder of a cow, and contract numerous 

 vascular adhesions to surrounding parts ; or it may extend 

 up through the inguinal canal into the abdomen, as felt 

 on examination through the rectum. 



Treatment. Those confined to the end ol tne cord may 

 be removed hke the testicle in castration. Those that 

 have contracted adhesions to the thigh and sheath may 

 still be removed with care, each vessel being tied as it isi 

 reached. But when the adhesions are very extensive and 

 the tumor very large it is almost impossible to do this, 

 and in the case of extension of the disease into the abdo- 

 men nothing can be done beyond partial destruction of the 

 mass with caustics. 



casteation op females. 

 In small animals this is done through the flank ; in large, 

 more conveniently through the vagina. The animal is 

 stretched on its left side, the fore limbs and head being 

 firmly secured and the hiud limbs extended backwards. 

 The hair is shaved from the flank a little below the angle 

 of the hip-bone, and an incision made from above down, 

 extending to an iuch in the pig or bitch, or sufficient to in- 

 troduce the hand in the heifer. Then with the finger OT 



