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Kittens not infrequently play with ladies' hatpins, and, 

 when once the head has got into the throat, speedily swallow 

 the whole pin. Fig. 125 is an illustration of a kitten which 

 was brought with such a history as the above. The skiagraph 

 was the result of sixty seconds' exposure. 



Fig. 234 is that of a kitten with a piece of steel, which 

 proved to be half the extremity of a pen-nib, which had 



Fig. 240. — Skiagraph of Pelvis of a Toy Bull Bitch, showing 

 Normal Pelvis. 



penetrated the muscles near the elbow and produced lame- 

 ness. It was extracted, and the patient did well. 



Fig. 210 shows a dislocation of one of the bones of the tail, 

 the patient being a greyhound, and the lesion the result of 

 violence. 



The patient, the skiagraph of whose pelvis appears in 

 Fig. 240 was a toy bull bitch, the subject of a controversy, 

 and was said to have a deformed pelvis, the owner having 

 been dissuaded from using her as a brood-bitch on this 



