402 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 
Peuch and Toussaint (whose recent work I have at hand) 
have twice performed cesophagotomy on the dog, once with 
a successful issue.* 
The operation has, so far, been a rare one, but witn the 
results, both in human and veterinary practice, hesitation 
when life rests upon it, should no longer exist. 
LITHOTOMY. 
The following newspaper report of removal of vesical 
calculi from the dog was published in the veterinary journals 
in September, 1881 :— 
“Mr. J. Woodroffe Hill, veterinary surgeon, of Wolver- 
hampton, removed by the operation of lithotomy two 
hundred and two stones from the bladder of the well-known 
St. Bernard bitch “ Mab,” winner of numerous prizes. The 
stones vary from the size of a millet-seed to a potato, the 
four largest weighing respectively three ounces, two ounces, 
one ounce, and half an ounce, and the lot in bulk nine 
ounces. They are chiefly triangular in shape, perfectly 
smooth, and white. The operation, which was performed 
under chloroform, was witnessed, amongst others, by the 
owner of “Mab,” Mr. J. C. Tinker (of Harborne), Mr. C. 
A. Newnham (surgeon), Mr. J. T. Phillips, M.R.C.V.S., and 
other gentlemen. No unfavourable symptoms have yet re- 
sulted from this formidable operation, but Mr. Hill scarcely 
anticipates a favourable issue. Under any circumstances 
the case is unique in canine surgery.”— Wolverhampton 
Evening Express. 
With regard to the above extraordinary case the follow- » 
ing particulars were appended :—I was first consulted about 
“Mab” on August 18th, 1880, chiefly as to her not 
breeding, and a continual irritation of the urino-generative 
organs. On examination I then discoveréd she had, in 
connection with her last pregnancy, sustained a vaginal 
* Peuch et Toussaint: ‘ Précis de Chirurgie Veterinaire.” 
