ON WOUNDED AND DIVIDED TENDONS. 
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so closely adherent to the superficies of the tumour, so embedded in 
its tunics, or in the spaces left between the junctions of the lobes 
at the posterior part, that without close inspection they must have 
been entirely passed over. Both ovaries were diseased. The 
right one was half as large again as natural, and possessed a scir- 
rhous hardness, with an evident tendency to ossific deposit. In 
it was a corpus luteum, enlarged and converted into a yellow 
viscid serous body ; the left was indurated ; the uterus was small 
and flabby, but not diseased. 
It became my object to ascertain the attachments of this large 
mass. This proved to be without the peritoneum, beneath the 
lumbar vertebrae, extending towards the last dorsal. It appeared 
to have its origin in the posterior mesenteric glands. There was, 
however, so complete a change in character, that all appearance of 
their original structure, or even shape, was lost. It was supported 
partly by bands of condensed cellular membrane, partly by the 
peritoneum, reposing upon the parietes of the abdomen, to which it 
had considerable extent of attachment. The weight of the tumour 
was one cwt. and a half. 
Having mentioned to Mr. Cherry that I intended to send for 
publication in The VETERINARIAN a statement of this curious 
case, he told me that he should have some remarks to make on so 
rare a disease, which I doubt not that gentleman will take an 
early opportunity of doing. 
Park-lane, February 8, 1847. 
ON WOUNDED AND DIVIDED TENDONS, 
WITH THEIR SHEATHS; ALSO, LESIONS OF ELASTIC LIGAMENTS OF 
THE LEGS OF HUNTERS INFLICTED BY SURREY FLINTS. 
By Thomas Turner, 
President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
Dear Mr. Editor, 
I FEEL anxious to record in your invaluable Periodical a 
brief sketch of some of my experience in a very important branch 
of veterinary practice, which has been but seldom adverted to by 
your numerous correspondents. 
I take up my pen solely for the guidance of the junior prac- 
titioner : it is essentially necessary that he be put on his guard 
(particularly on his commencing practice in a hunting district) 
respecting this division of veterinary surgery. It will be found 
