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With the third case, a black pug puppy, it was a hard sub¬ 
stance felt on the left side of the neck with the point pushing 
under the skin. The body extracted proved to be a lady’s ordi¬ 
nary black-headed hatpin, io inches long. The puppy measured 
only 12 inches from the angle of the jaw to the root of the 
tail.— (Ibid.) 
Hysterectomy in Aged Bitch [/. Stewart Wood, M.R. 
C.V.S.]. —This slut, nine years old, presents symptoms of puru¬ 
lent metritis and immediate removal of the womb is advised. 
Morphia is administered and chloroform after. The abdomen 
open exposes the bladder full of urine and ready to protrude. 
It is emptied with needle. The two horns are much distended 
and they are with difficulty drawn through the abdominal wound. 
The body of the uterus is ligated and both horns, attached to 
the stump of the uterine body, are removed with the ovaries. 
The abdominal wound is closed with catgut and the skin with 
silk sutures. The animal, exceedingly weak, was placed in a 
“ Rogers veterinary brooder ” (an incubator, I suppose), and 
kept comfortably warm. The wound healed rapidly and com¬ 
plete recovery took place in ten days.— (Vet. Rec.) 
An Interesting Inguinal Hernia [W. Jamieson , M.R. 
C.V.S., and Prof. F. Hobday, F.R.C.V.S.]— Six-year-old 
Yorkshire terrier bitch, weighing three pounds when four years 
old had a swelling the size of a walnut in the left groin. This 
has enlarged and now is as large as a goose egg, almost touch¬ 
ing the ground during progression. The hernia is quite irre¬ 
ducible, and even when chloroform is administered it was with 
difficulty that the contents could be returned in the abdomen. 
During the careful manipulations required, a small hole was 
made in the sac. The contents were the uterus, the intestine and 
a portion of the intestines. They were returned in the abdomen. 
A ten-day catgut ligature was applied to the base of the sac and 
several sutures applied round it to strengthen it and close the 
canal. The skin was sutured with silkworm gut and the wound 
treated antisepticallv. Uninterrupted recovery followed.— 
(Ibid.) 
Paralysis by Melanosis [Fred G. Edwards, F.R.C.V.S.]. 
—Ten-year-old gray hunter gelding becomes lame on the near 
foreleg; walking sound, he drops on a trot. With time the lame¬ 
ness increases and then the horse went lame walking down hill; 
