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tery, which I found no difficulty in accomplishing. I then com- 
menced to remove the other in the same manner ; but, after 
opening the scrotum and dividing the tunica vaginalis, I met with 
a difficulty which I had not anticipated — the whole of the tunic 
and testicle were one mass of adhesion, which I attempted to 
separate, but could not. I then placed the clams upon the cord, 
and with the knife cut away the whole, arresting the hemorrhage 
with the cautery. The horse was kept upon a cooling regimen. 
Very little swelling took place — suppuration was slight, and in 
the course of a fortnight he was at his usual labour as a roadster. 
Case III. — Being attending a mare in my neighbourhood, I 
was requested by the shepherd to examine a lamb which he said 
had no place through which it could void its dung. 
I found the place where the anal opening should have been 
without the least appearance of any orifice ; but, after well ex- 
aming the part, I thought that I felt some hardened feces. I 
then divided the skin with a lancet, making a tolerably free in- 
cision, so as to admit of the escape of excrement, which the 
animal immediately voided in a large quantity. 
The wound was kept open by the introduction of a small 
canula twice a-day at first, and afterwards only once. Small doses 
of opening medicine were given at times, but as the animal seemed 
healthy, and sucked its dam, not much was required. In a short 
time the opening had become a perfect anal orifice, and no further 
treatment was required. It is now a fine healthy-looking sheep, 
and two years old. 
THE VETERINARIAN, APRIL 1, 1842. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
Being compelled in the course of the last month to travel 
into some distant parts of the country, we have been brought 
into contact with several old and valued friends, and with others 
whom we had previously known only by repute. Of the general 
feeling of the profession, so far as we had the opportunity of 
ascertaining it, we may hereafter speak ; but there was one cir- 
cumstance to which we allude with much regret — the conduct 
of too many of the junior members of the profession, if, indeed, 
they may be considered as belonging to the profession. 
