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Reports of cases. 
On the second day of admission she was placed under the 
influence of ether and the tumor removed in the usual way by 
an incision made through the skin at the base and enucleation 
of the growth. This weighed twenty-three and a half ounces. 
The flaps of the skin were well trimmed, the wound thoroughly 
washed with bichloride of mercury, i to 1,000; the edges of 
the wound were brought together by interrupted sutures and 
a dressing of absorbent cotton was applied, with a bandage all 
round the body. The subsequent treatment consisted in 
washing and dressing daily with the same solution of bichlor¬ 
ide, and at the end of the fourth day the edges of the wound 
were found firmly adherent; no suppuration had taken place, 
making a perfect cicatization by first intention. Eight days 
later the patient was discharged, the wound being entirely 
healed. 
Shortly afterwards a lymphatic gland of the opposite side 
began to enlarge, and nine days after being discharged she re¬ 
entered the hospital with a second tumor, firm and very pain¬ 
ful on pressure. Again etherized, the enlarged lymphatic 
was removed and found to weigh ten and a half ounces. The 
course of treatment was the same as in the first instance, with 
the same result, and the patient was discharged five days later. 
Three weeks later she was again returned, having this time 
an enlargement about two and a half inches in diameter at the 
point where the first operation had been performed. Third 
etherization and third tumor, four and a quarter ounces in 
weight, was removed, followed by same treatment and result 
—complete adhesive union. 
Some fifteen days later two other tumors made their ap¬ 
pearance, one close to the place where the second had been 
removed, and the other beneath the vagine and extending 
backwards to near the vulva. These were removed painlessly 
with cocoaine and the wounds allowed to heal by granulation. 
Again, a week later, another growth appeared; this one 
on the right flank. Its removal was followed by a rapid heal¬ 
ing process. 
The dog had by this time been abandoned by the owner, 
and the treatment was merely kept up to see how far the dis- 
