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orifice. The owner attended to it, and used many applications; 
but on the 6th of April last he sent for me to see her, she being 
much worse. I found the posterior portion of the vagina on the 
near side scirrhous, ragged, and with two abscesses in it. I laid 
them open, and applied lin. terebinth. 
April 15 th .—Passed several setons through the parts. 
24 th .—Finding the animal no better, I removed the scirrhus, 
which weighed, I should think, three or four pounds, and also a 
fungus the size of an egg, from the upper part of the vulva in¬ 
ternally ; I then applied the cautery pretty severely to the 
whole diseased surface. The large tumour was very vascular, 
and in an unhealthy ulcerated state. 
May 3 cl .—I sent a lotion, composed of argent, nit. 3ss, aq. 
distil, ^iij., to be applied to the parts, in order to form an eschar, 
if possible, for the wound was continually being irritated with 
the dung. 
8tli .—All appears to be going on very well. 
27 th .—From last date to the present, the parts contiguous to 
that which had been removed gradually increased in size, similar 
to the former scirrhus, and contained an unhealthy abscess. 
A tumour had also formed three or four inches lower down, in 
the raphe, containing matter, and which I now opened. I also 
removed the tumour above (about four pounds weight), and 
ordered it to be dressed with lin. tereb. 
June 2d .—It seems as if tumours were about to grow again, 
for the part is very vascular, and lumps of fungus spring up in 
different parts of the surface : I dressed the parts with a solution 
of corrosive sublimate. 
7th .—Another fungous tumour has sprung up, the size of an 
egg, on the superior internal part of the vagina, which I now 
removed, and again applied the cautery. The other parts seem 
to be doing very well. 
1 6th .—There is a tumour half the size of the fist, about nine 
or ten inches below in the centre behind and between the legs; 
and the upper portion of the back part of the udder is also 
harder than it should be, but not sore. The parts formerly 
diseased are still going on well. I sent ^iij. ung. hyd. fort, to 
be rubbed on and about the tumour and udder at different 
times. After it had been rubbed in two or three days, it caused 
so much irritation that the application of it was suspended. 
23 d .—The parts about the vagina have become as bad as ever, 
being enlarged, hardened, and ulcerated; and on putting my 
finger into the ulcerated parts inside, they bled copiously. The 
tumour underneath is much enlarged, being now the size of a 
man’s fist, and hard. The upper part of the udder continues 
