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In three weeks the bitch was well. The puppies, put to 

 another bitch, also lived. 



" Marcorps ( ' Annales de M^d. V^t^rinaire de Bruxelles,' 

 1862, p. 137) had under treatment a bitch which had in the 

 right flank, towards the last mamma, a tumor the size of a 

 fist and which had appeared six weeks previously in a very 

 gradual manner. It was neither hot nor painful to the touch, 

 or on pressure. 



'' As it was supposed to be a mammary neoplasy, its ex- 

 cision was attempted. A large incision was made in the skin, 

 and there immediately appeared a white saccular body, which 

 was at once recognized as a uterine hernia. Instead of re- 

 turning it to the abdomen, as this appeared to be both dif- 

 ficult and dangerous, it was decided to extract the entire 

 uterine cornu, as far as the cervix uteri, apply a ligature round 

 it there, and thus extirpate the organ. This was done ; a 

 few sutures firmly united the skin incision ; the animal was 

 kept quiet, the diet attended to, a few enemas administered, 

 and in eighteen days after the operation, the bitch — of a sport- 

 ing breed — was out in the field with its master. 



" Saint-Cyr (Op. cit., p. 579) gave his attention to a bitch 

 which had been in labor since the previous evening. It had 

 given birth to a puppy twelve hours before, but no more 

 could be expelled. When Saint-Cyr first saw the bitch, the 

 labor-pains had ceased ; by vaginal exploration he could 

 scarcely touch the foot of the most advanced puppy — which 

 was not in the pelvis — with his finger ; while the volume of 

 thp abdomen led him to believe that there were more than 

 one in the uterus. The general condition of the animal was 

 good ; so it was decided to try the Caesarean section, indising 

 the right flank, where the foetuses were most readily felt, by 

 abdominal exploration. Three foetuses were removed from 

 the right cornu by a single incision ; two of these were dead, 

 but one was still alive. The operation being completed, the 

 cornu was returned to the abdomen, but not sutured ; and the 

 abdominal incision closed by interrupted suture, a bandage 



