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AMPUTATION OF THE PENIS. 
ichorous discharge, and irregular fungus over the extremity of 
the glans. 
On inquiry of the proprietor, I learned that the disease 
was observed about the beginning of January last, when there 
was a difficulty of voiding urine. The horse was then cast by a 
farrier, as he supposed, about the 8th of February, and the sheath 
washed out, which gave temporary relief. This was followed 
by powerful and repeated escharotics, but the disease set them 
all at defiance. I gave it as my opinion that amputation could 
afford the only permanent relief. 
I did not see the case any more till a message was sent to me, 
the morning of the 29th, that I was to come and amputate the 
tumour, “ because it was daily getting larger.” On seeing it 
again, its size was almost doubled, and there was a small hae¬ 
morrhage from the eroded vessels, so that symptoms of a fatal 
termination began to be apparent. The owner declared that it 
had made more progress during the month prior to this than it had 
done for two preceding ones. The patient was cast and secured, 
the tourniquet was applied, and then, by a circular section, I 
amputated seven inches of the penis, including the whole of the 
tumour, and which weighed forty ounces. The vessels were se¬ 
cured by ligature: the whole was the work of fifteen minutes. 
The patient voided urine freely in five minutes after the opera¬ 
tion. Laxative diet was ordered, but the horse did not appear 
at all affected by the operation. 
30M.—Feeding well; a little swelled around the sheath. 
31sL—Feeding well; swelled a little more. 
Sept. IsL—Appetite still good ; swelling extending anteriorly 
beyond the sheath; urine voided freely. 
3 d .—Swelling decreasing, and at grass. 
7th .—Swelling decreased, and at grass. 
8i ill .—In the plough, and has been doing his usual work since, 
and the parts quite healed. 
HORRIBLE BARBARITY BY A COUNTRY COW- 
LEECH. 
Reported bp a neighbouring Practitioner. 
A few weeks ago, a message was sent to my house, requesting 
that I would see a cow that was calving, belonging to a poor 
man. I was from home, and they could not, or would not, stay 
till my return, but sent for a man, or rather an unfeeling monster, 
which goes under the appellation of a very skilful doctor. He 
had tried to take away the calf, but could not accomplish it, 
