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DISEASE OF THE TENIS. 
15 sets of shoes charged to Mr. £ s. d. 
Dyson, at 3s. per set, amount to 2 5 0 
Cash to the master smith . .226 
0 2 6 for master. 
If the horses require double-hammered shoes the smith 
loses money by every set. 
DISEASE OF THE PENIS. 
By George Lewis, V.S. Monmouth. 
Sir, — Although the following case presents nothing new 
in Veterinary Surgery, I beg to forward it to you, thinking 
that perhaps you may deem it worthy of insertion in your 
Journal. 
In the early part of December last I was shown a cart- 
horse, the property of a farmer in this neighbourhood, who 
had a cancerous glans penis, involving the prepuce, which 
was enormously enlarged and ulcerated. The disease had 
existed about two years. The animal urinated wdth difficulty, 
and the urine was spread in all directions, as through an 
enormous rose of a watering pot. Of course, I advised an 
operation, which the owner assented to, and which I per- 
formed on the 23d ult. After having cast and properly 
secured him, and washed the parts with Sol. Chlorid. Calc., 
to destroy the faetor, which w r as intolerable, I made a circular 
incision through the prepuce ; after which I drew out the 
penis, and having secured it with a ligature, I proceeded to 
amputate, and in my course to look after the vessels for the 
purpose of securing them by ligature, but none made their 
appearance, not even after the removal of the ligature ; in 
fact, I believe that the horse did not lose Jiv of blood, 
although neither ligature nor cautery was applied. I was 
relating the circumstance to an eminent surgeon (under 
whose tuition I formerly w r as), and he informed me that he 
had witnessed similar occurrences in the human subject, 
among the larger vessels, when amputating; viz. — the re- 
traction being so forcible as to render ligatures needless, and, 
as in my case, without contusion or apparent cause. Imme- 
diately upon being released from the nobbles, the animal 
urinated freely, and is now doing well. 
