138 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



S. C. Adam, of Wolverhampton, I was struck, when investi- 

 gating the generative organs, with the condition of the ovaries. 

 All that remained of the one was a hard, gritty substance the 

 size of a horse-bean, imbedded in a smooth, round tumor 

 of fat, the dimensions of a large walnut, and containing in 

 the centre a cyst. 



The other resembled a granular, fatty mass, with a full- 

 developed ovum, ready to burst on the outside. The animal 

 had borne whelps, and was supposed (erroneously) then to be 

 pregnant. ■ 



