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ULCERATION OF THE SHEATH OF AN OX. 
patient obeying the laws of an immutable destiny, which 
seems to tempt one to ask— 
“ Why preys the malady 
So slowly on this frame, when death is coveted ? 
But lo ! this death is here, it comes apace.” 
ULCERATION OF THE SHEATH OF AN OX. 
By A. H. Santy, M.R.C.V.S., York. 
Seeing in your February number an extract from the 
ee Journal de-s Feterinaires du Midi” detailing the particulars 
of a case of ulceration of the sheath of an ox, I thought I 
would communicate to you a similar instance which I had 
under my treatment last summer. 
A two-years old bullock was the subject of the disease, 
and had been so for some eight or ten months previous to my 
attention being directed to him. He had been very much 
affected with warts growing close to the sheath, for which, 
either by the owner or some farrier, a dressing, containing 
arsenic, was applied. This caused a great amount of sloughing, 
which was ultimately followed by fungoid growths. 
When I saw the animal, there was a large fleshy substance 
hanging from the underneath part of the abdomen ; and he 
was very much emaciated. The urine was being passed 
through an aperture situated a little more than one third from 
the end of the sheath. 
I proceeded at once to dissect away the tumour, as close to 
the body as I could, when it was found to weigh several 
pounds. The inner surface of the sheath was now ascertained 
to be very much ulcerated, and discharging an offensive and 
unhealthy kind of pus. 
I examined the opening whence the urine came, and with¬ 
drew from it some large dark-coloured sloughs, three or four 
inches in length. After well washing the parts with tepid 
water, some diluted chloride of zinc was applied, in the pro¬ 
portion of 3j to a pint of water, and the outer surface was 
dressed with the terchloride of antimony. This dressing 
was only once repeated before the parts assumed a healthy 
condition, and ultimately healed. 
The bullock, when I saw him a short time afterwards, was 
still going on well, and gaining condition fast. 
