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FCETAL DYSTOKIA. 



nancy has expired, and is expelled from the uterus ; at other times it 

 reaches maturity, and living through a few of the early pains, it suc- 

 cumbs before parturition is completed, either from the effects of pro- 

 tracted labour or from the manoeuvres adopted to extract it. None 

 appear to have been born alive ; nor would they be likely to live if by 

 chance they were extracted before death seized them. In addition to 

 the abdominal cavity, the scrotum is often enormously enlarged through 



Fig. 101. 



AXASAECOUS FcETAL CaLF. 



its communication with the latter, of which it is only a kind of diver- 

 ticulum. Hydrothorax is often combined with ascites, and in one case 

 recorded the scrotum was enormously distended with the peritoneal 

 fluid. 



With regard to anasarca, Noyes^ has witnessed a number of cases 



Fig. 102. 

 Anasarcous Fcetal Calf. 



of general anasarca in the course of a year, in the neighbourhood of 

 Mirepoix, France. He states that the Calves were born at least three 

 weeks before their time, and always dead. The connective tissue of 

 the entire body — from the head to the croup — was infiltrated with 

 serum, the young creatures being double or treble the size of ordinary 

 Calves ; the head especially was enormously large. During pregnancy 

 ^ Rainard, op. cit., p. 476. 



