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tion of traumatic fever, no unfavorable symptoms supervened. 

 In eight days the bitch had recovered ; two of the puppies 

 were reared artificially. 



" Adam ( ' Bri.efliche Mittheilung ') perforpned the opera- 

 tion on a bitch, under chloroform, making the section at the 

 linea alba, behind the umbilicus, and dividing the tissues 

 with the scalpel, the peritoneum with scissors ; the cornua 

 were opened by incision. After removal of the foetuses, the 

 wound in the abdominal muscles was united by suture, then 

 that in the skin. During the first day the animal was very 

 depressed and feverish, but on the third day it was able to move 

 about. The puppies, which were very large, were reared by 

 hand. Eight months afterwards the bitch again became preg- 

 nant, and not being able to bring forth, died — no assistance 

 having been rendered on this occasion, apparently." 



