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WM. CUTTING. 
a large epithelial growth of the head of the penis was found, with four 
or five smaller ones about five inches above the first one. This gave 
rise to a very offensive and abundant discharge which, with the consti¬ 
tutional disturbance, were rapidly undermining the poor horse. Ampu¬ 
tation being decided upon, he was thrown down and etherized, the 
penis drawn well out, and a catheter introduced into the urethra, the 
skin drawn down over where the incision was to be made, so it would 
not cicatrize over the urethra, and close it up. The incision was made, 
cutting off about six inches of the penis. No artery requiring ligature, 
the edges of the sheath being brought together on the corpus caver- 
nosum of the penis, and down below with the mucous membrane of the 
urethra. A catheter was then held in position by strings tightened over 
the back, and was allowed to remain in place for five or six days, when 
finding the animal passing a full and free stream of urine, he was dis¬ 
charged convalescent. Much swelling of the sheath took place which 
subsided by cold water showering. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
- XK - 
HEMOGLOBINURIA. 
Mr. Editor : 
Oh ! what a name. Shades of departed lexicographers, what would 
the living Webster or Dunglison have said to such a name for such a 
disease. 
Mr. Editor, are Veterinarians justified in searching over the ash 
heaps of the dead languages, to find names for symptoms or conditions 
of the animal that are the direct result of mismanagement ? I think 
not. We have enough of disease, specific or otherwise, to grapple with, 
without dignifying the results of mismanagement in the stable with such 
a high-sounding name as “hemoglobinuria.” Since I have been in 
business in the city of Rochester, a period of thirty-two years, I have 
had to treat quite a number of cases of this “ hcemoglobinuria,” as our 
author names it ; I never thought to give this diseased condition such a 
fearful name. Why, Mr. Editor, let us rather try to simplify the names 
required in our 7ioble art , and use good Anglo-Saxon words that all 
may understand, in speaking and writing of our cases. Rather than to 
imitate the quack and empiric who try to astonish the public with their 
immense acquirements by using high sounding words and phrases. 
