Functions of the Generative Organs. \6i 



On the Continent some interesting cases of this operation 

 are recorded. Among others, Mr. Fleming, in the obstetrical 

 work alluded to, gives the following : — 



" Brooks and Whitworth (Ibid., vol. xxxix., p. 33) relate 

 the history of a bitch, which, while pregnant, had its pelvis 

 injured by being run over by a carriage. When parturition 

 had been going on fruitlessly for some time, an examination 

 was made, and it was discovered that, owing to the fracture 

 ot the pelvis, just above symphysis pubis, the dimensions of 

 tne canal were greatly reduced and altered in form, so that 

 the finger could scarcely be passed. Chloroform was ad- 

 ministered ; the hair removed from the skin in the right 

 iliac region, where the incision was made. Two puppies 

 were removed ; the wound in the uterus closed by silver 

 wire suture. In three weeks the bitch was well. The 

 puppies, put to another bitch, also lived. 



" Macorps (' Annales de Med. Veterinaire de Bruxelles,' 

 1862, p. 137) had under treatment a bitch which had in the 

 right flank, towards the last mamma, a tumour the size of a 

 fist, and which had appeared six weeks previously in a very 

 gradual manner. It was neither hot nor painful to the touch, 

 or on pressure. 



" As it was supposed to be a mammary neoplasy, its ex~ 

 cision was attempted. A large incision was made in the 

 skin, and there immediately appeared a white saccular body, 

 which was at once recognised as a uterine hernia. Instead 

 of returning it to the abdomen, as this appeared to be both 

 difficult and dangerous, it was decided to extract the entire 

 uterine cornu, as far as the cervix uteri, apply a ligature 

 round it there, and thus extirpate the organ. This was done ; 

 a few sutures firmly united the skin incision ; the animal 

 was kept quiet, the diet attended to, a few enemas ad- 

 ministered, and in eighteen days after the operation, the 

 bitch — of a sporting breed — was out in the field with its 

 master. 



"Saint-Cyr (Op. cit.,p. 579) gave his attention to a bitch 



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