HEMORRHAGE FROM THE GLANS PENIS IN RAMS. 427 
The zinc solution, commonly recommended for serous abscesses, 
appeared to do no good whatever. 
Diseases also of the udder in cows frequently come under my 
notice; and I generally find that small doses of sulphate of mag¬ 
nesia—about an ounce—combined with nitre, carbonate of ammo¬ 
nia, gentian, ginger, and pimento, and repeated daily, soon remove 
the disease, and all does well. 
My topical application at first is an embrocation of soap made by 
rubbing down soft soap, two parts, oil of turpentine two parts, 
hartshorn one part, and water six parts. If any induration is left 
afterwards in the udder, it is soon dispersed by the iodine ointment. 
1 never now bleed in these cases, not even when constitutional 
excitement runs high. I generally find it does harm. In severe 
cases, the above alterative doses are preceded by a brisk purge of 
salts, with plenty of cordial in it. 
Last summer I met with a few cases of ulceration of the folds 
of the maniplus in cows. The symptoms previous to death were 
not acute, but rather those of languor and loss of appetite. After 
death, in those that died, I found several distinct circumscribed 
patches, of a dark red membrane, nearly corroding through the 
leaves. They were about the size of a half-crown. I gave small 
doses of salts, with gentian and laudanum, in most of the cases. 
I attributed these appearances to the agency of some vegetable 
narcotic, most probably taken into the stomach while grazing. 
HEMORRHAGE FROM THE GLANS PENIS IN RAMS. 
By Mr. R. Read, Crediton. 
This occasionally occurs to rams during the season they are put 
with the ewes, and invariably arises from an abrasion of some of 
the bloodvessels of the glans penis, which are of a delicate struc¬ 
ture, and only held together and defended by a very thin tissue. 
It is a beautiful congeries of small worm-like vessels, and when 
distended pro coitu, every vein seems ready to rupture. Now 
this laceration is mechanically produced during connexion, or pre¬ 
vious to connexion, with the ewe, either from dirt about the wool 
that surrounds the labia, or from the intervention of a little clot of 
wool during erection. I have seen as much as from three to six 
ounces lost. On casting the ram on his rump, and examining the 
glans penis, you will discover a laceration, with a coagulum of 
blood over it; and at every succeeding erection a portion will be 
lost. The quantity thus abstracted is sometimes considerable, and 
