404. The Management and Diseases of the Dag. 
wound closed by the ordinary method, the strictest after- 
precautions being taken. Unfortunate'y the unfavourable 
prognosis I gave was realised, and poor ‘‘ Mab” suc- 
cumbed on Sunday night, patient and grateful to the last 
moment, extending herself for fomentation, &c., and 
licking my hand. 
CysTic CALCULI FROM ST. BERNARD Bitcu “ Maps.” 
One-ninth their original size. 
The calculus on the right, weighing three ounces, removed from the neck 
of the bladder, and since fractured in three portions, shows the radi ‘ing 
crystallisation. 
From a photograph by Hermann Warschawski. 
A post-mortem examination revealed another large stone in the left kidney, 
surrounded by gangrenous structure and pus. This stone was of a ragged 
nature, and weighed half an ounce; and the kidney, which was only an 
apology for one, merely forming a thin sac for the stone, weighed barely 
another half ounce. The opposite kidney, which had been doing all the 
work, weighed six ounces. The bladder was considerably hypertrophied 
its walls being thickened to the extent of three-quarters of an inch, and 
cartilaginous. Its neck, in which the stone weighing three ounces had 
lodged, was enormously distended. Altogether the organ weighed a trifle 
over eight ounces. The process of healing in those parts cut in the operation, 
including the ‘iadder, was well established, and had not peritonitis set in 
(which I believe was due to my instructions as to after treatment being 
disregarded) the patient would have undoubtedly recovered from it, though 
her span of life afterwards would have been of brief duration, owing to other 
organic disease. 
As observed in the newspaper report, the case is unique in canine surgery ; 
and though a severe loss, apart from pecuniary consideration, has fallen 
upon Mr. Tinker, a gain to lovers of the canine race, and to the animals 
themselves, may be the result, inasmuch as cystic calculus (which undoubtedly 
dogs suffer from more frequently than is suspected) may be more studiously 
sought for, and successfully removed. 
