AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS OF A HORSE. 439 
from the prepuce, which he thought lightly of. The discharge 
continuing some few weeks, he began to be uneasy, but not until 
February of the present year did he call in medical advice. He 
was then placed under the treatment of a Frenchman who prac- 
tises as a veterinary surgeon in the island, and, from what I can 
understand, a great number of warts and chancres were disco- 
vered, and attempted to be got rid of by potential and other cau- 
teries. Up to June, the practitioner had been attending the horse 
without success, and at length, not finding his treatment available, 
he at once pronounced the animal incurable, and advised his de- 
struction. The owner, not liking to sacrifice his horse, applied to 
another Frenchman, who undertook his cure ; he, however, found 
the treatment he adopted was as unsuccessful as that of the other, 
although, by the by, he had not persisted in his treatment more 
than a fortnight at the farthest. Finding or imagining he should 
be as unsuccessful as his predecessor, he called me in, and I, 
without much hesitation, recommended amputation of the glans 
penis, which was acceded to. 
The horse was kept upon bran diet three days previous to the 
operation, and a dose of physic administered prior to the per- 
formance of it. He was cast and made secure, and with a bistoury 
I excised about four inches of the penis. He bled profusely for 
six hours, as I did not use the iron after the parts were excised, 
neither did I introduce a canula into the urethra, as recommended 
by the French ; thereby proving that the operation can be per- 
formed without danger by merely excising the penis, and (I should 
have said) frequently dashing cold water over the parts afterwards. 
The horse has been going on well ever since, the treatment he 
received being the administration of a few cooling powders. He 
was kept in a cool and quiet stable, not allowed exercise, and is 
perfectly well, which is now nine days since the operation took 
place. I have ordered him to work in a few days from this 
period. — Should these hasty remarks be of any service, I shall be 
pleased to have them recorded in your valuable Journal. 
ABSCESSES OF THE GUTTURAL POUCHES IN A 
COW, CURED BY OPERATION. 
By W. Cox, M.R.C.V.S . , Ellas tone, near Ashbourn. 
During the summer of 1843, Mr. Edge, of the Acre farm, 
near Leek, had a cow that became affected in her breathing, her 
owner thinking she was touched in her wind (broken-winded). 
Little or nothing was done by way of treatment until I was called 
