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AMPUTATION OF PENIS. 
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publication; and shall read with pleasure any remarks 
you^ Messrs. Editors^ or your numerous readers may make 
upon it. 
AMPUTATION OF PENIS.' 
By Fred. Thomas Welham, M.B.C.V.S., Stratford St. 
Mary, Suffolk. 
On the 14th of April I received a message to attend a 
pony belonging to a client of mine, a Mrs. Heath, of Shelly, 
near Hadleigh, Suffolk, and was informed by the groom on 
my arrival, that from some unexplained cause the animal had 
for four months past been unable to stale properly and had 
not been seen to draw his yard. 
I found upon examination what appeared to be to me a 
very large cancerous growth on the end of the penis, which 
had become firmly adherent to the inside of the sheath al¬ 
most the whole way round, and so far blocked up the end of 
the urethra that the animal was unable to stale freely, conse¬ 
quently the urine was constantly dribbling from him. 
I at once advised an operation, and the pony was sent to 
my stables for that purpose ; the next day on casting, I found 
it necessary, before I could expose the penis, to divide the 
sheath for some 5 or 7 inches along the raphe, and with 
my scalpel separate the adhesion between it and the penis, 
which for 4 or 5 inches was diseased, presenting an enlarged 
fatty and ragged appearance. 
I passed a short catheter up the urethra, which I secured 
by means of a ligature round the penis, I then removed the 
affected part just below the ligature, and closed the wound 
in the sheath with sutures. 
The animal was placed in a comfortable loose box, an 
aperient was administered, and occasional doses of anodyne 
medicine were given; water with the chill off, and warm 
mashes were allowed for 2 or 3 days, after which the wounds 
in the sheath began to suppurate nicely. 
On the seventh day, the ligature by which the catheter 
was suspended became detached, and the wounds were pro¬ 
gressing favourably, I cleaned and dressed them every other 
day with a weak solution of sulphate of zinc, and on the 
17th of May sent him home completely cured, and the 
animal since then has been able to stale freely, and instead 
of wasting, makes flesh, and is working well. 
