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make strong efforts of defecation, bnt which were ineffectual, 
although aided by numerous rectal injections and doses of 
purgative medicines. Rectal examination proved that organ 
to be empty, but the hand when pushed further forward came 
in contact with a large spheroidal mass situated on the right 
and in front of the pelvic cavity, directly above the bladder. 
It was not hard but yielded partially to pressure and gave a 
sensation of fluctuation. What was its nature? Eserine, 
pilocarpine, coffee, linseed tea, cathartics and hourly injections 
proved powerless. The disease continuing for four days with¬ 
out any modification or abatement, and the animal died after 
a long agony 
The result of the post-mortem, made six hours later, was 
the discovery of a large tumor, free from adhesions to the 
meseutery or to the intestines, but united to the womb by the 
broad ligament. It occupied the place of the missing right 
ovary, the seat of which had been usurped by this enormous 
cyst, and the broad ligament at the point of attachment had 
become of triple thickness. The growth in its form was 
quite regularly spherical, and had attained a weight of over 
25 pounds, discharging, when punctured, 9 quarts of a thick, 
reddish-brown, odorless fluid. The walls of the cyst meas¬ 
ured about one inch and a half in thickness and were com¬ 
posed of a very strong, fibrous tissue. The left ovary was 
about three times its natural size, and was thickened and 
fibrous, and contained in the thickness of its substance five 
smaller cysts with thin, transparent walls.— {Ibidem.) 
TREATMENT OF SYNOVIAL, ARTICULAR, OR TENDINOUS WOUNDS 
BY NITRATE OF SILVER. 
By M. L. Ribaitd. 
Referring to a recovered case recorded by Professor Ca- 
diot under a form of treatment somewhat similar to his own, 
the author publishes reports of six cases in which he had re¬ 
course to the same therapeutics, to which he had, however, 
applied some modifications. 
The treatment recommended by Professor Cadiot consists 
