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PHYMOSIS IN FOALS. 
About two months after the accident she was removed from the 
slings; the bandages were taken from the leg, and a high-heel 
shoe applied, which was gradually reduced to the common shoe. 
Four months afterwards she went to regular posting work, and 
has gone perfectly sound up to the present time. 
ON THE TREATMENT OF PHYMOSIS IN FOALS. 
By the same . 
Having frequently been called to cases of phymosis in foals, 
and not having seen the disease named by any veterinary author, 
I have sent you a brief account of it, which may not be unin¬ 
teresting. 
In this country more than two-thirds of the colts, at the time 
they are foaled, have an adhesion of the prepuce to the penis, 
which is sometimes so contracted over the glans that it not only 
prevents the foal from showing his penis, but completely inter¬ 
cepts the passage of the urine. In consequence of this, disten¬ 
tion of the bladder takes place ; inflammation follows, and, if not 
relieved, the foal dies about the third or fourth day. 
In some cases I have seen the urine extravasated between the 
abdominal muscles and integument, and making its escape at 
the umbilicus; but death has then almost always ensued. In 
several cases that I have examined after death, I found the blad¬ 
der ruptured. The disease being so prevalent here, most of the 
farmers in this part, as soon as the foal is dropped, attend parti¬ 
cularly to this circumstance, and when they find that the disease 
exists, send immediately for medical assistance to “ dingle the 
foal,” as they term it here, or to set the penis at liberty; and 
which is done in the following way :—The foal is placed upon 
its left side, and confined so by an assistant; the prepuce is then 
carefully separated from the penis with the finger and thumb; a 
little oil is poured upon the parts, and after this the foal generally 
does well. 
ON GLANDERS, 
THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION PREVIOUS TO THE AP¬ 
PEARANCE OF THE DISEASE, AND ITS CONTAGIOUS CHA¬ 
RACTER. 
By Mr. Hales, V.S., Oswestry. 
In the last number of The Veterinarian, one of the Edi¬ 
tors gives us an account of a sort of running fight between himself 
and Mr. Vines, as to the nature of glanders. The collision of 
