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ination per rectum, which was very badly impacted with faeces, 
showed the tumor to be the distended bladder. No foreign body 
could be felt at this time, on account of the distension. The 
animal was placed on its back, and the owner having wonderful 
control over it, a hypodermic needle was introduced through the 
abdominal wall, at the linea alba, into the bladder and a quantity 
of high-colored urine evacuated. Examination per rectum re¬ 
vealed the presence of a foreign’ body in the bladder. The ani¬ 
mal was prepared for operation by diet and mucilaginous 
drinks, together with a mild cathartic, etherized, and an incision 
or puncture made in the perineum into the urethra and a sound 
introduced, to make sure that the foreign body was a calculus, 
or a growth. 
calculus being made out, an incision was made on the 
linea alba, an inch anterior to the pubes, and the bladder caught 
with forceps, and brought to the edges of the incision ; antisep¬ 
tic rubber cloth and cotton were placed on both sides of the 
incision to act as a dam and prevent escape of urine into perito¬ 
neal cavity. Using the sound in the urethra, as a guide, the 
bladder was opened by a longitudinal incision, and a calculus, 
six-eighths of an inch long, half an inch wide, flattened from 
above to below, its external surface studded with rugosities, and 
on section its nucleus was the end of the catheter lost during the 
previous catheterization. The bladder walls were stitched to¬ 
gether with the abdominal walls, a soft rubber catheter intro¬ 
duced through the perineal opening and retained in place by a 
stitch. The only attention paid to the abdominal incision, was 
to reinforce the sutures with flexible collodion, and suro-eon’s 
plaster around the loins. The catheter was removed and 
cleaned daily for a week, when it was removed, a stitch taken 
in the perineal opening, the urine passing through the urethra 
normally. The sutures in the abdominal vesical incision were 
removed in 48 hours, the wound healing by first intention. 
Diet after the operation consisted of meat once a day and raw 
liver every other day, and the administration of sanmetto inter¬ 
nally, and during the time the catheter was retained an occa- 
