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Tumours of the uterus are not common in the bitch or 

 cat, but now and again they are met with. Some varieties 

 (such as myoma, see Fig. i8g) can be excised, and the patient 

 may Hve for years afterwards ; whilst others, such as sarcoma 

 (see Fig. igo), are mahgnant, and the most humane course 

 is, to destroy the patient painlessly as soon as this fact is 

 assured. Sometimes these tumours attain an enormous size. 



Fig. 189.— Myoma of the body of the Uterus of a Retriever Bitch.^ 



Professor Penberthyhas recorded an instance where an aged collie was 

 found on post-mortem examination to have an oedematous fibroma of the 

 uterus weighing igj pounds.^ 



Fig. 189 was photographed from the uterus of a retriever bitch, nine 

 years old. The animal was thought by the owner to be pregnant.' 



Operation. — The patient is prepared in the same manner as 

 for oophorectomy, the incision in the abdomen being of 



1 Journal of Comparathie Pathology a7id Therapeutics, vol. x., p. 73. 



2 Ibid., September, T902 (G. H. Williams and F. Hobday). 



3 This condition was not discovered until after death, although a 

 tumour was diagnosed. 



