406 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
Dislocations may be reduced by drawing the affected limb, gently and 
firmly, and turning it around in any direction which a knowledge of the 
joint suggests as suited to the return of the bones to their positions. 
DISORDERS PECULIAR TO FEMALE FOWLS. 
Some knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the organs con- 
nected with the formation and laying of the egg is requisite to an 
understanding of the disorders peculiar to female fowls. Of the accom- 
panying cuts the first represents the ovary, resembling a cluster of fruits, 
in which the egg, first appearing as a very small 
yolk, is fertilized and remains a few days. It 
then passes into and through a canal, called the 
THE Ovary. Tue OvipuctT. 
A parti ly formed egg (sec 214) is dropping froin tne ovary into the upper end of the oviduct, and a 
mature one, ready to be laid, is near the lower end, close to the branch of the gut, 
oviduct, shown in the second cut, in which it receives the successive layers of 
the white. It finally lodges in an enlargement called the uterus, in which 
it remains until it is ready to be expelled, or “laid.” 
Ecc—Bounp.—Sometimes the egg in the uterus (represented by the 
enlargement toward the bottom of cut 214, near the lower end of the gut) 
becomes too large to be expelled, and the fowl remains on the nest in vaim 
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