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sional suppository of morphia per rectum to control the 
tenesmus. The patient was discharged in three weeks, passing his- 
urine naturally, and beginning to improve in coat and condition. 
The owner reported several years afterwards that the animal 
had been in perfect health for two years after the operation, and 
was killed in a railroad wreck. 
j^Note._Operation similar to one performed for Prof. Stein of the New York Hospital.] 
Case No. ^—Vesical calculus, Chesapeake Bay retriever 
bitch, three years of age. The only history with the , case 
was that there had been constant passing of bloody urine with 
severe tenesmus ; animal in a debilitated condition and suffering 
much pain. The diagnosis of calculus was easily made by 
passing a sound into the bladder through the urethra. The pa¬ 
tient was given a mild cathartic, an enema, and a hypodermic 
injection of morphia, which rendered the animal so quiet that 
the urethra was dilated with the sound, and an attempt made to 
extract the stone, but, being too large, the Bigelow lithotrite was 
introduced, and the calculus crushed and the debiCs washed out. 
In the debris was found a shot, which apparently had formed 
the nucreus. Animal did very well, and lived for several years 
afterwards. In this case, the animal, being a famous retriever, 
my suspicion was that possibly she had been shot, and one of 
the shot had entered the bladder. A year after the operation, 
I was told by the breeder of the bitch that in those animals he 
sold he always introduced bird shot into the vulva of bitches to 
render them barren. 
Case No. j .—Fracture of os penis, with amputation of the 
organ. Patient a 50-lb. English bulldog, six years old, said to 
have been injured in a fight, and showed much oedema of the 
penis, together with a suppurating wound midway between ex¬ 
tremity of the penis and arch of the rectum. A probe detected 
the roughened bone readily, and introducing a probe into the 
urethra, a passage was found leading to the wound. At first 
hopes were entertained of making an artificial meatus, but, later 
necrosis of the bone being set up, the prepuce was incised and 
the penis, together with the bone entire, amputated to within 
