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to the barn, where I found the butcher in the act of flaying a 
very fine beef, yet steaming hot. He said, “ I am glad we 
saw you pass, I have something here to show you,’’ etc. I 
said, “ Yes, John, that is a very nice beef.” “ Yes,” said John, 
“ but that’s not what I want to show you, or what I can’t 
show you, perhaps you will say.” There was nothing but 
the contents of the abdomen removed—the heart, lungs, liver, 
etc., were intact—so also the bladder. The butcher wanted 
to know if 1 missed anything, but, in fact, I did not. He said, 
“ Don’t you miss the calf-bag? ” (as he called it), and then I 
did. On inquiry about it, he told me there was none, a thing, 
if I had not seen for myself, would not have believed, for, in¬ 
deed, there was none; not the remotest sign or vestige of a 
vulva, vaginal cavity, or any of the genital organs could be 
found. Where the vulva ought to be we found a very small 
orifice that would not admit of my smallest finger. But in 
using the probe, found the way into the bladder. On section of 
the urethra found everything normal. This was a four-year 
old heifer, never known to be in heat or “ rutting,” raised on 
the farm, and made an excellent beef. The butcher said he 
was in the business nearly forty years, but never saw anything 
like this before; and in all the obstetrical literature I have 
ever seen, not a single case of the kind have I ever found 
reported. 
Question—Have you, Mr. Editor, or any of the readers of 
the Review, heard of one ? 
> TETANUS—ANTI-TOXINE—DEATH. X 
By Roscoe R. Bell D.V.S., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
The following case of tetanus is recorded—not because of 
any peculiarity of the disease, nor of any original observation 
in connection therewith, but simply to describe the use of 
this new serum and the phenomena of its action upon a tetanic 
subject. The author has no comment to make upon its 
failure to cure nor ameliorate the symptoms; he simply 
records the facts as they transpired in the description of the 
general characteristics of the malady in this particular 
patient. 
On Saturday, December 28th, 1 was called to see a roan 
gelding, about eight years old, one of a team of family horses 
belonging to Senator-elect Peter H. McNulty, residing at 
Kensington, 29th Ward of Brooklyn. The patient had been 
driven the previous day, but showed stiffness, poor appetite, 
and the dribbling of saliva. When I first saw him the disease 
was well marked, it having the opisthotonos form, with the 
