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PROLAPSUS UTERI IN A SOW. 
such is the fact in every case, \t certainly speaks powerfully in 
favour of such an hypothesis. As old age appears, debility, or- 
ganic and functional, will, as a consequence, supervene ; and it is 
most probable that those functions, the seat of which are in struc- 
tures remotely situated with respect to the centres of vital force, 
will be the first to feel the effects of such constitutional debility. 
The secretion of the pigment of the hair and the formation of its 
cells is a delicate process, and requires for its efficient perform- 
ance strong constitutional energies and a vigorous supply of nu- 
tritive matter : now, the vessels which supply the pigment cells 
with this necessary nutrition are remotely situated both from the 
nervous and vascular centres, and, consequently, I infer that the 
effects of organic debility would here first become manifest. It is 
probable in the present case that the deposit of the dark matter 
commenced when it began to disappear from the hair ; for the 
melanotic mass, exclusive of the fluid in the guttural pouch, 
weighed twelve pounds eight ounces avoirdupois; a weight of 
substance which it is scarcely possible W conceive was secreted 
from the time the small tumour was first seen to the 11th of July, 
a period of about six months. 
PROLAPSUS UTERI IN A SOW. 
By JOHN CLEVELAND, Farrier , Brampton, near Beccles, Suffolk. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian .” 
Dear Sir, — Having been a constant reader of your valuable 
Periodical for some years, and having elicited many truths and re- 
ceived much valuable information from its pages; and believing, 
as I do, it to be one of the best works that a veterinarian’s library 
can boast of ; and seeing very few successful cases in the treat- 
ment of prolapsus uteri in the sow ; I am induced to send you the 
following one. 
Should you deem it worthy a space in your invaluable Journal, 
it is quite at your service. 
Your’s respectfully, &c. 
On Monday the 22d of March, 1847, I was requested to attend 
a sow, the property of Mr. E. Durrant, farmer, in the parish of 
Redisham, near Beccles, who was discovered by her attendant to 
be unwell; — to use his phrase, “ had something hanging from her 
hind parts as large as a peck measure.”. On my arrival I w’as in- 
formed she had given birth to six pigs on the Friday preceding. 
