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tended with fluid ; this viscus we have forwarded for your 

 inspection. 



" (As stated in Messrs. Gowing's report of the case, the 

 uterus was distended with fluid ; the horns and the body of 

 the organ being about equally tense. When the walls of the 

 viscus were opened, the contained fluid was found to present 

 the ordinary characters of pus, being thick, yellowish-white 

 in colour, and perfectly uniform in consistence. The lining 

 membrane of the uterus was softened and somewhat pulpy 

 but no ulceration or other morbid change was observed. 

 Under the microscope the fluid was found to consist princi- 

 pally of epithelial scales, with small exudation corpuscles 

 and blood-discs, but there were no pus-corpuscles. In the 

 larger mammalian animals, collections of fluid in the uterus 

 is not uncommon, and the condition is sometimes described 

 as false conception ; there is no reason, however, to con-' 

 elude that this abnormal secretion is in any way connected 

 -with impregnation.) " 



FATTY DEGENERATION OF THE OVARIES. 



In aged bitches of an obese disposition, and those which 

 have parturiated, there is a tendency to fatty degeneration 

 in organs otherwise not usually adipose. 



A short time since, when making a /o.r<-w«orfe»« examina- 

 tion of an aged Newfoundland bitch, belonging to the Rev. 

 S. C. Adam, of Wolverhampton, I was struck, when investi- 

 gating the generative organs, with the condition of the 

 ovaries. All that remained of the one was a hard, gritty 

 substance the size of a horse-bean, imbedded in a smooth, 

 round tumour of fat, the dimensions of a large walnut, and, 

 containing in the centre a cyst. 



The other resembled a granular, fatty mass, with a full- 

 developed ovum, ready to burst on the outside. The 

 animal had borne whelps, and was supposed (erroneously) 

 then to be pregnant. 



