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I round the cyst firmly attached to the skin in front, 
especially in the locality where it had been so frequently 
lanced or tapped. This adhesion being removed, it became 
then necessary to separate its further attachments, which, 
as the knife steadily proceeded, revealed more and more 
complications. 
Leaving the jugular veins and carotid arteries by almost 
a hair’s breadth, and fully exposed, I came at last in view 
of the trachea, and here it was found that the injury had 
arisen which gave rise to the formation of the cyst, there 
having been a fracture of some of the cartilaginous rings, 
which Mr. Marston informed me he attributed to a kick 
the dog received in the neck. Having got well to the 
base of the tumour, the patient was placed on his feet, in 
order that it might hang pendulent whilst a ligature was 
drawn round it, and it was then finally excised, being 
about the size of an orange, and containing two ounces and 
a half of tenacious, glairy matter. I closed the external 
wound with sutures, applied antiseptic dressing with a 
bandage, and, like a little warrior, “ The Colonel” went 
away, evidently satisfied with the result of the somewhat 
bloody operation he had encountered. 
The four following days he came for surgical attention 
to the wound, each visit showing a satisfactory condition 
of the part operated upon, and he left Wolverhampton on 
the 23rd with every prospect of soon being: well, which 
- prognosis a subsequent letter from his master confirmed. 
In such a situation, and so intricate in its attachments, 
the excision of this cyst required the most careful, patient, 
delicate, and watchful dissection, the more so as the 
administration of chloroform was not admissible ; and the 
heroic manner in which this animal behaved during that 
painful period adds one more link to the chain of testimony 
recorded of the courageous attributes of the canine race. 
