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VETERINARY OBSTETRICS. 
Examination of the Parts , by Assistant-Professor VarnelL 
The oesophagus was inflamed throughout, the vessels of 
the attached surface of the mucous membrane being engorged 
with blood. The villous portion of the mucous membrane 
of the stonach was inflamed, in some parts intensely so; 
giving the surface a peculiar patchy appearance. The lining 
membrane of the trachea and larynx was unusually red. 
The heart was soft and flabby, and a few petechial spots 
studded its inner surface. The kidney was unusually dark 
in colour, from congestion of its vessels, and on making a 
section of it, its surfaces were found to be studded—the cor¬ 
tical portion more especially—with very dark spots, indicating 
that the Malpighian tufts were highly congested. 
In forming an opinion as to the cause of the death of the 
animal, we cannot but think that the lesions above described 
were produced by some mineral poison or poisons. 
[The earthy matters being dissolved out of the liver by 
means of dilute acid, no effervescence took place. To the 
solution, oxalate of ammonia being added, a cloudy precipi¬ 
tate was thrown down, showing the existence of lime. 
Another portion being neutralized with carbonate of soda, 
on the addition of nitrate of silver to it a yellow deposit took 
place, arising from the presence of phosphoric acid. Thus 
the deposition consisted of bone-earth.] 
ON VETERINARY OBSTETRICS. 
By C. Hunting, M.R.C.V.S., South Hetton. 
Since I forwarded my paper on “Veterinary Obste¬ 
trics,for your March number, the discussion of that im¬ 
portant subject has been more fully entered into at the 
meeting of the West of Scotland Veterinary Association , and 
also bv other correspondents in your pages, which proves 
very clearly to me that the doctrine attempted to be laid 
down by Messrs. Aitken, Balfour, and Calley, is not true, 
and that they wrote their papers, not so much for the pur¬ 
pose of laying their opinions and experience before your 
