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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
CANCROID OF THE GLANS PENIS IN THE HORSE—AMPUTATION 
OF THE ORGAN BY THE ELASTIC LIGATURE. 
A tumor having the external character of a large cancroid 
had developed upon the head and free portion of the penis of 
a small gelding, 15 years old. This growth had produced a 
paraphymosis, complicated with oedema of the sheath. Mictu¬ 
rition was greatly impeded in consequence of the double pressure 
upon the urethra by the neoplasm and the oedema of the sheath. 
The animal was losing flesh and was brought to the school of 
Toulouse for treatment. Considering that the cancroid was part 
of the penis, it was decided to amputate the organ, and the elas¬ 
tic ligature was chosen as the best means of operation. 
The animal being thrown on the left side, and the right hind 
leg secured as for castration, a metalic catheter, fifteen centime? 
ters in length and one centimeter in diameter, was introduced in 
the urethra and kept in place by an assistant while the ligature 
was applied. This catheter allowed micturition to take place 
notwithstanding the circular pressure of the ligature, as it carried 
at the extremity which was in the urethra, an olivar dilatation 
which prevented it from falling off. It had also on its outside 
extremity a small plate which withheld it from slipping too far 
back iu the urethra. Within eleven days, after some trifling com¬ 
plications, which soon subsided, the fore part of the penis beyond 
the ligature sloughed away, and in a month after a radical cure 
was obtained .—Annales de Belgique. 
A DEEP PENETRATING WOUND OF THE PERINEUM. 
By M. Jaootin. 
An eleven-year-old horse had placed one of his fore feet upon 
the teeth of a fork. On raising the foot the extremity of the 
handle was brought against the abdominal wall towards the pos¬ 
terior part, and a little to the right of the sheath, and by the 
force of the contact and the pressure and through the struggles of 
