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REPORTS OF OASES. 
The above would indicate that the growth is an osteo¬ 
chondroma with a tendency to become sarcomatous. 
Pardon my unavoidable delay. 
Yours, T. E. Oertel. 
SURGICAL INTERFERENCE IN CASES OF EPITHELIOMA OF THE 
PENIS. 
By C. Claton, D.V.S., A. V. S. to Hospital Dept, of American Veterinary College. 
On April nth a chestnut gelding was brought to the 
clinic suffering with a large cancer of the penis with a pro¬ 
fuse discharge of a most offensive odor. The mass was very 
irregular in shape and had several tracts leading to the ure¬ 
thra, and was unable to urinate without great difficulty and 
pain. Amputation of the organ was advised, but the owner 
not wishing to have an operation performed, and desiring 
some other form of treatment applied which would permit 
the animal to draw the penis within the sheath, we applied 
an elastic ligature around the two largest protuberances. 
Saw no more of the animal until June ist, when he was ad¬ 
mitted to the hospital to be operated upon. He was cast, se¬ 
cured so as to expose the inguinal region as in castration. 
All instruments and appliances were sterilized, a metal cathe¬ 
ter was-passed into the urethra, but in order to do this the 
mass had to be cut through posterior^ to the natural opening, 
as that seemed to be completely closed; a tape was wound 
firmly around the penis about the diseased portion, to pre¬ 
vent hemorrhage and also to serve as a means of holding 
the organ outside of the sheath, and another at the end so as 
to keep the parts tense; the tissues were then dissected away, 
leaving about i y 2 inches of the urethra protruding; the ar¬ 
tery was then tied, the protruding portion of the urethra slit 
on its inferior border, turned back and sewed to the stump, 
the taper bandage removed and animal allowed to rise, which 
he did much to our satisfaction, as he was an old horse, that 
is, about 15 years. The after treatment consisted of creolin 
solution injections and cauterizing the granulations that pro¬ 
truded between the stitches. In two weeks the wound was 
completely healed and the index finger could be passed into 
