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which, perhaps, was somewhat smaller than natural, it looked 

 in point of size like a pumpkin by the side of a walnut. 



^' The tumour, cut in half, presented surfaces of a marbled 

 aspect : an appearance produced by an ash-coloured sub- 

 stance, of which it was almost entirely composed, being 

 crossed and intersected in every direction by white fibrous 

 bands, issuing at short intervals one from another, from the 

 inner surface of the proper tunic of the ovary, by which its 

 component substance was irregularly partitioned into num- 

 berless compartments of all shapes and sizes; the ash- 

 coloured substance itself exhibiting more toughness than 

 firmness, and looking like organized and converted albu- 

 minous deposit. In the centre, the tumour had undergone 

 the ulcerous degeneration. There was an irregular cavity, 

 presenting the appearance of having had its origin in two 

 or more abscesses ulcerating into one, which, altogether, 

 contained about a tea-cupful of purulent matter, looking 

 like good laudable fluid pus, without any grumous or case- 

 ous admixture. The tunic of the ovary had grown with 

 the tumour, and acquired thickness and strength with its 

 increased growth, and presented a fibrous character. The 

 blood-vessels had likewise undergone proportionate aug- 

 mentation. Altogether, the case turned out an exceedingly 

 interesting one.^^ 



The following cases comprise all the information I have 

 been able to collect in this fallow-field of hippopathology : 

 nine of them are quoted by D'Arboval — seven from 

 M. Bouley, junior, the eighth from Lapoussee — the tenth 

 is taken from the Recueil de Medecine Veieri7iaire. 



1 . A mare, five years old, who had been eight days ailing, appeared 

 sufiering under slight colic : her tail shook, she walked stiffly, her belly 

 was swollen, her back reached, and a fetid sanious issue escaped fi:om 

 her vulva ; the udder also was tumefied, and, by compression, yielded a 

 serous lactescent exudation. It was suspected she had metritis, having 

 but a little while before foaled. Antiphlogistic treatment produced sen- 

 sible amelioration at first ; but at the end of four days her fever and 

 colics returned, the pulse became imperceptible, and on the sixth day she 

 expired. A large quantity of red fluid was found effused into the abdo- 

 men ; the visceral surfaces of the peritoneum presented evident traces of 



