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HYDROPS UTERI IN A SOW. 
Nov. 3 d . — Going on well, and is turned out with the other cows. 
No discharge of any importance from the vagina, nor has the foetus 
been discharged, as they know of. Yesterday she was in oestrum, 
but the bull was not admitted to her. Soon after this she was 
sold to feed, and, I believe, kept in perfect health. 
In your number for January last is a paper from me on this 
subject, which I intended to have followed up more fully, but hurry 
of business has prevented me. For the following very interesting 
and rare case, I am indebted to Mr. W. Haycock, veterinary sur- 
geon, Huddersfield : — 
Hydrops Uteri in a Sow. 
“ July 14 th, 1842. — I was requested this day, by an individual 
who resides in this town, to examine a sow which he said was not 
well. She did not feed amiss, but she was not lively, and he 
noticed also that the animal grew very large in the body. She had 
pigged six weeks previously, and had not been again to the boar. 
I went and examined the beast, but 1 must confess that I could 
make little or nothing of it, and 1 told the owner to that effect. 
Nothing, however, was done in the way of medicine ; nor did I hear 
of the case again until the 23d of the same month, when the owner 
came to request that I would examine the animal, for she had sud- 
denly died in the street, as they were bringing her from the boar. 
On laying open the abdomen I perceived the uterus to be very much 
distended, and, on removing and cutting into it, I found that it was 
filled with clear water, which I measured, and found to be three 
gallons in quantity. 
“ The lining membrane of the uterus presented no traces of recent 
inflammation : it was perfectly white, smooth, and glistering. The 
remaining viscera of the abdomen were healthy. The lungs were 
congested with blood, which, in my opinion, was the immediate 
cause of death, as the animal had been run a good deal in the 
streets, and, from the uterus being so much distended with fluid, the 
diaphragm was prevented moving with the requisite freedom ; 
hence congestion of the lungs and the death of the animal. The 
brain and spinal marrow I did not examine. Such is the case 
which came under my notice, and the only one of the kind I ever 
saw. If it be of any service to you, you are heartily welcome to 
it, and you are at liberty to make what use of it you choose.” 
