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Respecting the therapy, it must be modified so that the stifle 
at the inner side be covered by the epispasticum, but to a lesser 
extent should friction be applied to the latter locality than at the 
hock. 
Our experience with this growth and its direct results may be 
summed up in the following sentences: The spavin of the equine 
species is a complicated affection which not alone involves the 
tibio-tarsal articulation, but also the femoro-tibial in lameness. 
The occult spavin has its location in the stifle, or femoro-tibial 
joint .—Berliner Wochenschrift. 
PRIMARY TUBERCULOSIS OF THE PENIS. 
From certain nodular tumors upon the penis "of a bull, it had 
become necessary to castrate the animal. Not long after this 
operation the latter was slaughtered, and the lower portion of the 
organ, possessing the new formations, sent to the veterinary uni¬ 
versity in Dresden. Approximately, ten inches removed from 
the urethral opening, two tumors were located, which approached 
a hazel-nut in size. 
These were imbedded in the constituent parenchyma of the 
penis; section of this revealed a cancellated interior as a founda¬ 
tion matrix, and in the center a crumbling mass of whitish yellow 
material. About three inches from the latter nodules, the orean 
suddenly expanded to a considerable extent, being at the prepuce 
six inches in circumference. Dissection revealed this increase in 
volume to be due fo a number of hard nodules situated in among 
the erectile tissue of the corpus cavernosum. Also, under the 
skin, between it and the latter body, in the loose and elastic con¬ 
nective tissue of the prepuce, numerous tumors. Mucous lining 
af the urethra normal. 
Presence of tubercle baccillus could not be proven by the 
Ziehl-Gabbet method; upon the thin section of the formations 
themselves, however, abundant colonies were detected by follow¬ 
ing the Koch-Ehrlich staining. Cases of tuberculosis of the penis 
in the domestic animals are met but rarely. 
