SCIRRHOUS UDDER. 
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Having been bought in for feeding, she was turned on to 
a meadow pasture. After being out a few weeks, she was 
observed to be unwell, and was in consequence brought 
home, and my attendance requested. I found that sup¬ 
puration had taken place in the mammary gland, though 
very deep. I thought it impossible to stay the suppura¬ 
tive process, so I ordered her to be fed on generous diet, 
and the glands rubbed with a stimulating liniment. In 
a few days the pus approached the surface of the gland, 
it growing daily more prominent and tense; the legs also 
swelled to an enormous size, and were very painful. I eva¬ 
cuated the contents of the abscess, which amounted to three 
pints of sanguineo-purulent matter, of an extremely fetid 
character, i had the wound syringed out with warm water, 
and kept open and clean, and I administered some aperient 
and diuretic medicine. She seemed to be going on in a 
favorable manner, when, in a few weeks, she was again 
attacked as before, and was treated similarly; and she again 
recovered. This, however, did not prove to be the last, for 
the old symptoms again began to make their appearance; 
and having cut her twice, and the disease again returning, 
the steward was rather dubious about having her cut again, 
he having had an ointment recommended to him by a gentle¬ 
man, who said his shepherd had used it w 7 ith great success : 
so he resolved to give it a trial. The ointment was regularly 
applied for three months. The abscess broke and discharged 
its contents, and soon afterwards smaller ones broke in various 
parts of the glands, they being now 7 in a scirrhous indurated 
condition, and thrice their natural size: the animal also in an 
emaciated condition. His lordship, one day, walking round 
the farm, chanced to see the cow, and ordered her to be 
destroyed. I was over in a few days afterwards, attending 
to other patients, when the steward informed me of his lord¬ 
ship’s orders, and inquired if nothing further could be done, 
as it was a shame to destroy her, if there was any chance of 
recovery. I told him nothing further could be done for her 
but amputating the whole of the glands ; to which he readily 
consented. 
I had her prepared for the operation; and, having Mr. 
Dorrofield, wdio was attending to my practice, to assist me, 
I commenced by making a careful incision from before back¬ 
wards, between the udder and abdominal muscles, tying up 
the vessels as they came to view. The first 1 came in contact 
with was the large vessels forming the superficial abdominal 
vein, and branches of the internal, pectoral, and epigastric 
arteries. I then cut through the condensed areolar tissue 
