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CASES OF AMPUTATION OF TUMOUKS, &C. 
In fhree weeks the wound was perfectly healed ; and, one 
month after the operation, I sent the animal home, free of lame- 
ness, and fit to walk, trot, or canter. As, however, there was 
still a little swelling on the leg, I applied a mild blister, which 
had the desired effect. My patient, after this, got two or three 
weeks’ run at grass, and has since carried a lady, and occasion- 
ally other persons, and has remained perfectly sound and safe to 
ride. 
From the success which has attended the operation in this 
case, and in others, I am inclined to prefer the transverse to the 
longitudinal direction. 
CASES OF AMPUTATION OF TUMOURS FROM THE 
PENIS— OPEN JOINT— AND PUERPERAL FEVER. 
By Mr. C. Hutson, V.S., Winterion, Lincolnshire. 
Case I. 
Aug. 8 th, 1838. — I was called to attend a pony, the pro- 
perty of J. Soulby, Esq., Surgeon, of Spilsby, and upon ex- 
amination I found a large tumour, of a scirrhous nature, on, and 
quite round, the lower and membranous part of the penis. I ad- 
vised its removal ; and, with the kind assistance of Mr. Soulby 
and another medical gentleman, removed the tumour, cutting 
into the integuments nearly round in so doing. We then brought 
the edges of the skin in apposition with each other, and confined 
them by suture. I then gave an aloetic purgative. Bran and 
grass diet. 
29th. — Very little swelling — pulse 60 — appetite good. 
30 th. — The swelling increased — the patient feverish — pulse 60 
— appetite good. Administer cooling powders of nitre and digi- 
talis. The same diet to be continued. 
31s£. — H e was evidently better, and continued to improve until 
the 8th of September, when he was dismissed. 
August 1839, I was again called to see our patient, and found 
him nearly as bad as at first. We removed the tumour, taking 
care to extirpate the whole of the diseased part, and applying, 
afterwards, a solution of nitrate of silver, and giving him cool- 
ing medicine as before, his diet being bran and grass. 
20th. — Pulse slightly increased, and the part swollen. 
22d. — Every thing going on favourably, and on the 23d he 
was sent to grass. 
September 21s/, he was examined and found quite well, and so 
remains at the present time. 
