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Pathologico-anatoinical diagnosis : bilateral serous salpingitis with oblit- 

 eration of the opening of the ampullse through adhesion of their margins 

 to the surface of the ovaries. 



7. A yearling goat which had not shown estrum at all, nor nympho- 

 mania, was slaughtered on October 26th, 1905. 



The post mortem examination revealed : uterus symmetric, its body 

 3 cm. and its horns 7 cm. long. From the right ovary there hung by a 

 pedicle 6 cm. long a spheroidal, free-swinging tumor 8 cm. in diameter. 

 This 2 celled tumor contained a freely flowing yellowish fluid with numer- 

 ous fibrin floccules. The left ovary was likewise enlarged, 3 cm. broad, 

 fluctuating, three chambered, the cavities containing a clear, pap-like fluid. 

 Pathologico-anatomical diagnosis : congenital ovarial cystic degeneration. 



8. A 2 year old brood sow. apparently perfectly sound, which had already 

 borne two litters of pigs, being fat, was slaughtered on May 8, 1906, and 

 revealed the following : 



The ovaries were each as large as a fist and weighed together 500 grammes. 

 Each consisted of numerous thin-walled fluctuating cj'sts, varying in size 

 from a nut to an egg, the contents consisting of a transparent serum. In 

 the right ovary there was a yellow body as large as a pea. 



Pathologico-anatomical diagnosis : cystic degeneration of both ovaries. 



The contents of solitary ovarial cysts usually consist of a 

 watery, transparent fluid having an alkaline reaction and con- 

 taining albumen; less frequently the contents are yellowish, 

 reddish or bloody. 



It has been recognized for several decades that the thin walled 

 peripheral ovarian cysts tend to recur. The recurrence involves 

 largely for a long duration of time the same ovar}- ; at other 

 times it alternates, first one, then the other ; or both may be- 

 come involved simultaneously or in rapid succession. It is 

 worthy of note that, strictly speaking, the symptoms of nympho- 

 mania resulting from recurrent ovarian cysts are frequently 

 more marked and intense than those accompanying primary 

 cysts. Exceptionally in cows which have developed " stillochsig- 

 keit," or dumb estrum, as a result of ovarial cysts, and these 

 have been crushed, intense erethetic nymphomania may occur 

 8-14 days later because of the recurrence of the cysts. 



An additional, though very rare, observation included three cows 

 which were handled because of recurrent cysts, after which concep- 

 tion followed but, during the entire span of gestation, sexual desire 

 was easily excited so that they would neither graze quieth- nor 

 could they be turned out with other cows to drink and, even on 

 the day before calving, attempted to ride other cows. In two of 



