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pituitary membrane was of a livid pale character. She was kept 
under treatment during three months without avail, and then was 
destroyed. 
CASE IV.—SLIGHT DEPRESSION OF THE FRONTAL BONE. 
This horse, seven years old, was kicked in the forehead; a 
wound two inches in length was the result, and a slight depres¬ 
sion of the frontal bone. There was also a slight hemorrhage 
from the right nostril. The depression of the frontal bone did 
not appear to have any thing dangerous about it, and nothing but 
cold water was applied, eight pounds of blood being abstracted. 
On the eighteenth day after the accident, the first suspicious 
symptoms began to appear; and the horse, after undergoing the 
usual treatment for glanders, was destroyed at the expiration of 
two months. RecueiL 
SCIRRHUS OF THE OS UTERI AND VAGINA IN 
A MARE TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD. 
By M. Mo LIN, M.V,y at Auxerre, 
A MARE, twenty-four years old, and beautifully proportioned, 
had been regularly sent every year to a neighbouring stud in 
order to be covered ; she however continued barren in spite of 
every precaution. At twenty years old, the thought of breeding 
from her was quite abandoned. 
She was one of the best working mares about the mill—her 
owner was a miller—but, at length, on account of her age, he 
placed in the shafts with her a colt twenty months old, which he 
had bred from another mare. 
Twelve or fifteen months afterwards it was perceived that the 
old mare was fast increasing in size, that her teats swelled and 
contained milk, and he began to suspect that she was in foal. 
Four, five, and six months passed, and there was no appearance of 
parturition, although the extraordinary size of the belly and the 
movement of the foetus left no doubt as to her real state. 
I was consulted; and I confess that, after the whole tale was 
told, I found it extremely difficult to answer to the thousand 
questions that were put to me. The first idea that occurred to 
me, but which I kept to myself, was, that it was an extra-uterine 
conception, and I gave my opinion with a great deal of reserve. 
Some days afterwards, evident labour pains sliewed that the 
womb was endeavouring to expel the foetus by the ordinary way ; 
but no progress being made, I was sent for. It was midnight 
