Diseases of the Generative System. aut 
treatment consists of removal by amputation with knife or 
scissors when suitable, those of diffused character being 
freely as well as regularly dressed with caustic potash, 
nitrate of silver, or the mineral acids. Acetic acid has, 
however, special preference. Subsequently great care is 
required in order to avoid the injury of adjacent struc- 
tures, which the ignorant in these essentials are apt to 
ignore. 
Amputation of the Penis may be required as a 
result of the consequences just referred to, or by reason 
of abscess from neglected warts, cancer, &c., an operation 
calling for care and skill, which the qualified canine 
surgeon only can be expected to possess. 
Scrotal Inflammation.—The bag or covering of the 
testicles is liable to become inflamed, and under circum- 
stances of neglect, undue plethora, or other adverse states 
of the system, the disease is aggravated, and the tissues 
assume a hard, leathery, or semi-cartilaginous nature, and 
if wounded or abraided, the process of ulceration is 
established, and a condition not unlike that of -cancer is 
the inevitable result of all such neglected cases. One of 
the early causes is probably. excessive copulation in 
animals of a senile condition, an abnormal congestion of 
the tissues being established. The scrotum is acutely 
reddened, swollen, and sensible, and in a few days the 
surface is covered with pimples. These subsequently 
burst and discharge a thin fluid, which accumulates, and 
drying, forms a thick encrustation, but ultimately falls off 
and exposes an acutely inflamed and sensitive surface 
beneath. Further neglect ensures rapid ulceration, con- 
tinued enlargement with malformation, and finally drying, 
with change to a cartilaginous state of the whole of the 
scrotum; or the parts may remain in the ulcerative 
condition until death carries off the patient. 
Treatment.—Brisk cathartics to open the bowels at 
once, with one to four or five leéches to the inflamed 
scrotum, and after the lapse of twenty-four hours diligent 
bathing with hot water will be beneficial When the 
pimples have formed apply frequently glycerine, to which 
boracic acid is added in the proportion of ten to fifteen 
