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wound closed by the ordinary method, the strictest after- 

 precautions being taken. Unfortunately the unfavourable 

 prognosis I gave was realised, and poor " Mab " suc- 

 cumbed on Sunday night, patient and grateful to the last 

 moment, extending herself for fomentation, &c., and 

 licking my hand. 



K post-mortem examination revealed another large stone 

 in the left kidney, surrounded by gangrenous structure and 

 pus. This stone was of a ragged nature, arid weighed half 

 an ounce ; and the kidney, which was only an apology for 

 one, merely forming a thin sac for the stone, weighed 

 barely another half ounce. The opposite kidney, which 

 had been doing all the work, weighed six ounces. The 

 bladder was considerably hypertrophied, its walls being 

 thickened to the extent of three-quarters of an inch, and 

 cartilaginous. Its neck, in which the stone yveighing three 

 ounces had lodged, was enormously distended. Altogether 

 the organ weighed a trifle over eight ounces. The process 

 of healing in those parts cut in the operation, including the 

 bladder, was well established, and had not peritonitis set 

 in (v/hich I believe was due to my instructions as to 

 a,fter treatment being disregarded) the patient would have 

 undoubtedly recovered from it, thdugh her span of life 

 afterwards would have been of brief duration, owing to- 

 other organic disease. 



As observed in the newspaper report,, the case is unique 

 in canine surgery ; and though a severe loss, apart from 

 pecuniary consideration, has fallen upon Mr. Tinker, a gain 

 to lovers of the canine race, and to the animals themselves,, 

 may be the result, inasmuch as cystic calculus (which 

 undoubtedly dogs suffer from more frequently than is. 

 suspected) may be more studiously sought for, and success- 

 fully removed. 



