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A. LIAUTARD. 
some dry blood over one year old, with which I am confident I 
can reproduce the disease. 
Of the above mentioned herd, np to March 11th, forty-three 
head have died. 
For treatment I only advised change of food and ground. 
CLINICAL CHRONICLES. 
By A. Liautard. 
_ 
According to all writers on the subject of the operation of cas¬ 
tration in the solipeds, almost ev6ry mode of operating presents 
its objections. While with one the rapidity of the manipulation 
will become the point sought for and adopted, others will prefer 
to it one which, though slower in its performance, will at the same 
time, be safer in its results. It is for this reason that the mode of 
castration by the clams is probably preferred on the continent to 
any other. With many the animal is thrown and secured in such 
a manner that but little fear of accident need be entertained. But 
many operators, principally on this continent, have adopted the 
modus operandi with the animal standing up. That position, and 
the section of the spermatic cord with a rapid application of the 
ecraseur, seems to be the adopted mode of most of those who are 
I engaged in that department of veterinary surgery. It is not with 
the idea of discussing the advantages or objections of any of the 
modes in which the operation is performed, that we offer these few 
remarks, but in order to bring to the attention of the practitioner 
the fact that it seems that this mode of manipulation with the 
animal standing up and struggling more or less, more or less turn- 
I ing and pulling the cord, besides the possibility, almost unavoida¬ 
ble, of hemorrhage by the rapid division with the ecraseur—this 
mode of manipulation, we say, is explanatory of the common 
occurrence of schirrous cord, or champignon, in geldings in this 
country. In relation to this, we publish the report of a case of 
that disease, where the tumor was removed by the elastic ligature. 
CHAMPIGNON OF THE LEFT SPERMATIC CORD-AMPUTATION WITH 
THE ELASTIC LIGATURE—RAPID RECOVERY. 
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By Austin Peters, (Student). 
On the 24th of October, 1882, was brought to the hospital of 
