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the return of the coming season, put to horse, and was covered 
six times. Ten days afterwards she died. 
Autopsy, made immediately after death, discovered, among the 
abdominal viscera, which had a healthy aspect, the womb repre- 
sented by a voluminous hard substance, which, cut lengthwise, 
gave exit to a lifeless mule, very well formed, without the least 
sign of decomposition, not even any depilation. Its nose was so 
completely encased within the neck of the uterus, that, through 
compression, it had become elongated, and had its nasal cavities ob- • 
literated. The uterus itself, with its membranes, exhibited nothing 
extraordinary. After the symphysis pubis had been divided, the 
incision that had been made into the uterus was extended as far 
as the neck, the parietes of which were found in a scirrhous, tumid, 
yellow condition, and so hard that no instrument could be found to 
penetrate it without difficulty. 
The thoracic viscera were sound. The head was not examined. 
M. Caillier concludes this interesting account by observing that 
he abstains from all reflections on the case, further than remarking 
that the mare went twenty-three months with foal ; and that the 
scirrhous affection, involving the neck of the uterus, proved the 
sole obstacle to parturition. 
Extracts from Domestic Journals. 
THE HUNTERIAN ORATION. 
[From “The Medical Times.”] 
This annual address was delivered on Monday, Feb. 14th, bv 
R. D. Grainger, Esq., of St. Thomas’s Hospital, to a very crowded 
audience. Sir R. Peel, Sir R. H. Inglis, the Dean of West- 
minster, and the heads of the medical corporations, were present. 
From the low tone of voice, more particularly remarkable at the 
close of sentences, which detracted from the effect of Mr. Grain- 
ger’s otherwise agreeable delivery, much of his meaning was lost 
to a great proportion of his hearers. 
Commencing with a recognition of the circumstances of time and 
place under which the assembly had met, the orator indicated, at 
an early stage of his address, the particular direction which his 
remarks would take. Modestly avoiding an ambitious flight, he 
preferred to rest on his experience, as a teacher in a large medical 
school, his title to speak freely upon the past arid present state of 
