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be punctured in order to permit the extraction of the fetus, but 

 the exact nature of the disease was not determined. Was it a 

 cystic thyroid or salivary gland ? 



Fleming cites Pflug, who was called to attend a goat in difiScult 

 labor and found a large cyst upon each side of the head of the 

 kid, in the region of the parotid gland, which offered considerable 

 impediment to the extraction of the fetus, which, however, was 

 finally accomplished without puncturing the cysts. 



The same author describes the case of a foal with a cystic 

 distension of the guttural pouch. 



The indications in this rare group of anomalies will depend 

 somewhat upon the location and volume of the cyst. When very 

 large they may generally be easily destroyed by puncture, which 

 allows the contents to escape; or the tumor may be so adjusted in 

 position that the fetus may be extracted without the destruction 

 of the cyst. 



D. TUMORS OF THE FETUS. 



It must be very rare that a fetus suffers from a tumor in the 

 true meaning of that term. Fleming speaks of tumors of the 

 fetus, but includes under this heading those which we have con- 

 sidered in the preceding section as cysts. Among his citations 

 there is only one which might possibly be regarded as a tumor 

 in the common acceptance of that term. Citing Rossignol, Flem- 

 ing alludes to a fetus which had, in the neighborhood of the um- 

 bilicus, a tumor which weighed 1 1 pounds and was composed of 

 £bro-adipose tissue. The description of the tumor is very incom- 

 plete, and its nature is not revealed. 



