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vagiiiMit, the foetus being out of reach in the extremity of one uterine 

 horn. Progress after the operation was quite uneventful. 



Fig. 191, a Blenheim spaniel, was six years old before mating was 

 allowed to take place, and the pelvic bones were quite unyielding, the 

 vaginal passage being exceptionally small. In conjunction with Mr. 

 G. Parr, F.R.C.V.S., the author performed ovaro-hysterectomy of the 

 pregnant uterus, and the patient made an uninterrupted recovery. The 

 puppies were all dead at the time of operation. 



In another case, the patient, a toy Manchester terrier, had been 

 clandestinely mated by a large fox-terrier, and after six weeks' pregnancy 



Fig. 188. — Bull Bitch upon which Ovaro-hysterectomy was performed 



for Dystokia. 

 (Photograph taken about six months after operation). 



was so uncomfortable and distended as to appear almost ready to burst. 

 Had matters been allowed to progress, she must inevitably have died 

 before the time for parturition had arrived, and, as matters proved after- 

 wards, it would have been a physical impossibility for the puppies to have 

 been passed. Ovaro-hysterectomy was performed, the wound healed by 

 first intention, and recovery was quite uneventful, the patient being shown 

 to the members of the Central Veterinary Medical Society' five days 

 later, and sent home within a week. 



1 Veterinary Record (Proceedings of the Central Veterinary Medical 

 Association). 



