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ENORMOUS ENLARGEMENT OF, WITH HYDATIDS 
IN, THE LIVER OF A SOW, AND SUPPOSED 
PREGNANCY THEREFROM. 
By the same. 
On the 15th December 1848, a person of the name of Williams, 
from Farndon, Cheshire, sold a sow, two or three years old, to a 
person of the name of Batho, of the Woodhouses, near this town; 
who sold her in the same day to Mr. Blake, of the same place. 
It was said at this time that she would pig in the course of three 
weeks. 
On the 19th February 1849, Mr. Blake sold her to Mr. 
Maddocks, of Bronington, Flintshire: she was represented at this 
time as in pig, and sound, although very thin. Mr. M. kept her 
for several days, and then returned her, finding she could scarcely 
get up when down, and believing her unsound, and that she never 
would pig. Mr. Blake refusing to take her back, an action was 
brought in the county court to recover the amount; and on the 
6th of March it was tried, when judgment was given for the 
defendant, as it was supposed she might have been injured across 
the loins, in getting her out of the cart in conveying her either one 
way or the other. Positive evidence was given that she was in 
pig: some had even seen the pigs jump. On the 7th March, 
Mr. Maddocks’ nephew, of the lodge, near here, fetched her from 
Blake’s, and on the night of the 9th she died. On the 10th I 
opened her. 
Examination .—There issued from the posterior part of the 
abdomen several quarts of serum, and in it there lay an immense 
tumour, occupying three parts of that cavity : it lay principally on 
the right side, and protruded very much into the thorax. I had it 
removed, and found that it was an enlarged diseased liver. It 
weighed the enormous weight of fifty pounds. The surface of it 
was studded all over with tumours of various size, and on cutting 
into the mass it was found to consist of an innumerable number ot 
hydatids. Nearly the whole of the substance of the liver was 
absorbed, the gland now being scarcely any thing more than a 
mass of hydatids. 
