AO^ The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



Peuch and Toussaint (whose recent work I have at hand) 

 have twice performed cesophagotomy on the dog, once with 

 a successful issue.* 



The operation has, so far, been a rare one, but with the 

 results, both in human and veterinary practice, hesitation 

 when life rests upon it, should no longer exist. 



LITHOTOMY. 



The following newspaper report of removal of vesical 

 calculi froin the dog was published in the veterinary journals 

 in September, 1881 : — 



"Mr. J. Woodroffe Hill, veterinary surgeon, of Wolver- 

 hampton, removed by the operation of lithotomy two 

 hundred and two stones from the bladder of the well-known 

 St. Bernard bitch " Mab," winner of numerous prizes. The 

 stones vary from, the size of a millet-seed to a potato, the 

 four largest weighing respectively three ounces, two, ounces, 

 one ounce, and half an ounce, and the lot in bulk nine 

 ounces. They are chiefly triangular in shape, perfectly 

 smooth, and white. The operation, which was performed 

 under chloroform, was witnessed, amongst others, by the 

 owner of "Mab," Mr. J. C. Tinker (of Harborne), Mr. C. 

 A. Newnham (surgeon), Mr. J. T. Phillips, M.R.C.V.S., and 

 other gentlemen. No unfavourable symptoms have yet re- 

 sulted from this formidable operation, but Mr. Hill scarcely 

 anticipates a favourable issue. Under any circumstances 

 the case is unique in canine surgery." — Wolverhampton 

 Evening Express. 



With regard to the above extraordinary case the follow- 

 ing particulars were appended : — I was first consulted about 

 "Mab" on August i8th, 1880, chiefly as to her not 

 breeding, and a continual irritation of the urino-generative 

 organs. On examination I then discovered she had, in 

 connection with her last pregnancy, sustained a vaginal 



* Peuch et Toussaint : " Precis de Chirurgie Veterinaire." 



