334 CHRONIC DISEASE OF THE URINO-GENERATI VE ORGANS. 
the uterus which she wanted to expel. Seeing these pains, I 
was induced to pass my hand into the uterus, and in so doing, 
about three inches from the labia, I detected a small tumour 
containing about an ounce of dark-coloured fluid. The ex- 
ploration appeared very painful to the animal, and when my 
hand had entered the womb I found a large spongy mess occu- 
pying its interior. The discharge coming from the parts was 
most offensive. I washed the vagina, &c., as clean as possible 
with tepid water, and ordered a disinfectant lotion to be thrown 
up, and which was done every day for a week. After this time 
she was left without treatment, and last night the owner had 
her killed. I would have gladly sent you the bladder and womb, 
but they were so much cut to pieces, that I thought it use- 
less to do so. I found all the urinary organs diseased, and 
the bladder so much contracted that it could not possibly 
contain more than two ounces of fluid at one time. From 
the state of the womb I am quite sure she could not have 
had a calf for, at the least, six months, if then. The lungs 
were sound, but the liver gave evidence of chronic disease. 
The stomachs were likewise healthy, but the intestines were 
discoloured in patches. 
[Externally the kidneys were apparently unaltered in 
structure, but were more pallid than natural. They were 
greatly increased in size, one weighing 4J lbs., and the other 
nearly as much. They measured about twelve inches in 
their long, and six in their short diameter. They were flaccid 
to the feel, and evidently contained a good deal of a semi-fluid 
material. The ureters were also much enlarged in calibre, and 
thickened in their coats. Each was filled to distension with a 
viscid mucus of a brownish colour, which extended into the 
several branches of these tubes to their origins from the 
lobuli of glands. The pelvises of these lobuli were similarly 
distended, and the tubular structure of each was partially 
absorbed, but otherwise healthy.] 
