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pelvis was the seat of a chronic inflammation, with its cavity 
full of pus, and the mucous membrane considerably thickened. 
A certain number of calculi of various sizes floated in the 
fluid, and round lobules were affected with interstitial nephritis. 
The lesions on the left side were much advanced, but very 
little remaining of the cortical substance of the organ, al¬ 
though it was still surrounded by a considerably thickened en¬ 
velope. In the pelvis there was a kind of cavity, containing 
a caseous mass, friable and adherent to the mucous membrane, 
and here and there in the walls of the pelvis hardened portions 
„were found, resembling bone tissue, and forming a kind of 
band at the entrance of the water, and preventing the exit of 
the pus from the cavity of the pelvis.— VErcolani. 
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT. 
CANINE HOSPITAL. 
The recently completed hospital for dogs at the University 
of Pennsylvania was formally opened with a simple service 
held in the University chapel. Dr. John Marshall, Dean of 
the veterinary department, presided. Provost Pepper was 
unable to be present, through illness. The keys of the new 
hospital were turned over by Joseph E. Gillingham, Presi¬ 
dent of its Board of Managers, to the Trustees of the Univer¬ 
sity, for whom they were received by H. H. Furness, LL. D. 
Mr. Gillingham’s address was a short one. He made an 
earnest appeal for funds to enable the department to carry 
on its good work, and said that during the year 1892, ending 
on August 31, there had been eighteen hundred and twenty- 
five domestic animals treated. Dr. Furness, in accepting the 
keys on behalf of the Board, said: 
Whatever -else our fair building, with all its beneficient 
appliances, may effect, we shall all agree, I think, that in this 
town, hereafter, the language of anger or contempt has lost a 
favorite phrase. Who, hereafter, with any shadow of regret 
or malevolence, can say that a fellow creature has gone to 
