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authorities in my possession and can find no account of tubular 
pregnancy in the cow. 
A QUEER FREAK OF NATURE. 
By A. E. Derwent, D.Y.S., Waverly, la. 
A short time ago I was called to operate on what the 
owner called a hermaphrodite for the purpose of removing 
the testicles. The animal was five years old, a well bred ani¬ 
mal from running stock. 
The mammae were well developed, having two well-formed 
mammilla instead of the scrotal sack, which contained two 
well-formed testicles, which could only be felt by manipulation. 
The penis was well-developed and of natural size and was 
situated in the line of perinasum about five inches below the 
anus, the urine being voided through its natural course, 
there being no vulva developed. I make a report of this case, 
having never seen a similar report in the Review. 
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DOES CASTRATION OF FEMALE DOMESTIC ANIMALS PREVENT 
THE RETURN OF RUTTING? 
By Mr Barthelemy. 
Thirty-eight young sows, ranging in age from forty-five to 
sixty days, which had been operated on by a professional 
castrater, subsequently become in heat monthly in the same 
manner as if they had not been subjected to the operation, 
and a law suit resulted between the owner and the operator, 
the former claiming that the operation had not been skillfully 
performed, and the latter affirming that both of the ovaries 
had been removed in the case of each of the animals. By 
order of the Court, five of the pigs were killed, and a post¬ 
mortem examination made by two veterinarians, who reported 
that ' the ovaries, the oviducts and the greatest part of the 
uterine horns were absent in all the five cadavers. 
The problem was thus evidentlv solved, and the fact es¬ 
tablished that female swine may become in heat after the re- 
