38 PARAPH YMOSIS AND AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS. 
Neither Cato the Censor, nor Varro, nor the poet Lucretius, 
take any material notice of the prevalence of any epizootic. Cato, 
indeed, speaks of an eruption on sheep, for which he recommends 
friction with olive oil and exposure to the air. This was probably 
the common scab. Varro derives all that he recommends from 
the Greek authors ; and Lucretius, having recourse to the Greeks, 
gives a description of the ignis sacer. 
In our next number we will consider what information can be 
gleaned on this subject after the commencement of the Christ- 
ian era. 
A CASE OF PARAPHYMOS1S AND AMPUTATION OF 
THE PENIS. 
By Mr. Harry Daws, F.6., Rathbone Place , London. 
Sept. 21 sty 1841 — The subject of these observations was a 
roan cart stallion about twenty years of age, belonging to one of 
our extensive breweries. 
Previous history : — About five or six weeks antecedent to the 
above date the animal was affected with spasms of the bowels, 
and was treated by the farrier of the establishment, who admini- 
stered to him such powerful excitants, that the urinary organs 
became involved in one general inflammatory action. 
Incontinence of urine, from severe irritability of the mucous 
tissues lining the bladder, and their secretions being altered both 
in character and in quantity, accompanied by a continued erec- 
tion of the penis, from an incessant desire to void the urine, were 
the results. 
Purgative medicines had been exhibited, and produced the 
effect of allaying the irritable state of the bladder in a few days ; 
but the penis remained enormously swollen, particularly at the 
part nearest the prepuce, where a considerable degree of solidity 
had amassed from depositions of coagulable lymph, and on the 
surface of this tumefaction were many irregular unhealthy ulcer- 
ations. The veins on its dorsum had become greatly enlarged, 
and had assumed a varicose state. 
Emollient cataplasms, fomentations, and scarifications, had 
been repeatedly tried, but without any benefit accruing. 
I was this day consulted in conjunction with another practi- 
tioner, a friend of mine, and its removal by amputation was re- 
commended, and performed shortly after. 
In the cases of amputation performed by M. Barthelemy, Mr. 
