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thus tightening the scrotal covering, through which an incision 
was made by an ordinary knife, and the testicle liberated. 
The vas deferens was then cut, and the remaining portion of 
the cord laid along the thigh. This being made tense by a 
slight pull at the testicle, the cord was gently, gradually, yet 
rapidly scraped along its length with a knife having a rough, 
not sharp, edge, till it separated, when the abraded ends of 
the vessels were found to contract. If the operation is skil¬ 
fully performed, there is little more haemorrhage than stains 
the knife. 
The same process was of course repeated with the other 
testicle. 
After the operation, a bucket of water was dashed over 
the parts, and the animals placed in a shed. 
The after-treatment was conducted by Veterinary Surgeon 
Death, who assured me that healthy suppuration and healing 
soon followed, and that the animals were all at their duty 
in the usual time. 
The operation was shown to us by Veterinary Surgeon 
Chambers, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, and was eminently 
successful on this occasion; upwards of one hundred and 
twenty animals being operated upon by different individuals, 
and under all the disadvantages of maturity, temperature, 
and high feeding, without a single casualty which could be 
rightly traced to the operation. Two of the animals died of 
glanders in about a week after the operation, but this was 
not above the ordinary per-centage of mortality from that 
disease during this campaign of exposure and privation. 
REMARKS ON “ USING A GLANDERED HORSE 
IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE.” 
By T. A. Dollar, V.S. 
Veterinary Establishment, 
8, Bulstrode Mews, Marylebone Lane, 
Oxf.ord Street; Jan. 15, J859. 
Gentlemen, — I enclose you the following particulars of 
the case which appears in the Veterinarian of this month, under 
the head of “ Veterinary Jurisprudence,” feeling satisfied 
that they will not be wholly uninteresting to your readers; 
and as the decision of the police court (until the whole 
history of the case is before the public) is damaging to my 
