INTERESTING CASES. 
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Other treatment than imputation was evidently useless, and 
accordingly the patient was chloroformed, the limb disinfected, 
and owing to serious mangling in the inferior tibial region am¬ 
putation was made by student K. just beneath the head of the 
tibia. Two lateral flaps were prepared, the chief arteries ligated, 
the tibia and fibula were sawed through, the flaps sutured care¬ 
fully, the patient was reloaded into a wagon and returned at 
once to the owner’s premises and placed with her pigs. 
On the following day the patient appeared dull, but the 
wound looked clean, was free from swelling and no injury had 
occurred to cause haemorrhage. ‘ 
On the fourth day the owner reported slight swelling of the 
stump and the tearing out of one or two sutures, but the patient 
was brighter, feeding and caring for her pigs, and was moving 
about some. 
On the eighth day the patient was running about on three 
legs without apparent great inconvenience, and in 15 days the 
wound was practically healed, the sow in good health and flesh 
and caring for her brood of pigs apparently none the worse for 
the injury and loss of a leg. 
CASTRATION OF CRYPTORCHIAL BOARS. 
(420) Patient, a boar pig, aet. 4 weeks, both testes retained 
within the peritoneal cavity. Securing the pig on the right 
side with anterior part of body depressed, an opening was 
made by student F. in the left flank as if for spaying, the 
index finger introduced and the left testis grasped, withdrawn 
from the abdomen and excised, the finger again introduced, 
passing between the abdomnial floor and intestinal mass until 
the right testis was encountered and removed in the same man¬ 
ner as the left. 
(421) A boar pig of same age as 420, monorchid, the normal 
testis having been removed by the owner. The abdominal 
testis was removed by student M. in same manner as 420. 
(432) A four weeks boar pig with right testis retained in 
abdomen, operated upon by student H. in same manner as pre¬ 
ceding. 
