REPORTS OF CASES. 
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REPORTS OF CASES. 
“ Careful observation makes a skillful practitioner, but his skill dies with him. By re¬ 
cording his observations, he adds to the knowledge of his profession, and assists by his facts 
in building tip the solid edifice of pathological science .” 
POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF A CRYPTORCHID . BULLOCK- 
CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS AND PATHOLOGICAL 
CONDITIONS. 
By C. H. SwEETAPPLE, V. S., Professor of Cattle Pathology and 
Obstetrics, Ontario Veterinary College, Toronto, Canada. 
“ In life that vegetates, and life that moves, o’er all, disease 
her beauty withering wand waves high,” and it cannot be 
doubted that in all u life that moves ” congenital malformations 
may also exist as well as pathological changes. 
The following case from notes of a post-mortem examination 
made for the Health Department of the city of Toronto, a few 
weeks ago, will I trust prove of interest. 
A white steer, about three years old, had a masculine (stag- 
gish) appearance about the head, was in good condition and 
apparent good health. In consequence of having a tumor in 
the soft tissues in the region of the throat, the animal was held 
under the authority of the City Health Department, to be 
butchered under veterinary inspection. 
The bullock was killed and the viscera removed by the 
butcher in the ordinary way. iVnd on opening up the animal, 
it proved to be a cryptorchid, a small imperfectly developed 
testicle being found in the postero-inferior part of the abdom¬ 
inal cavity, attached to the spermatic cord. This, of course, 
accounted for the staggish appearance of the animal. 
The liver was normal in size and form, but had two gall 
bladders closely united together. The butcher told me that he 
had occasionally noticed similar malformations in slaughtered 
animals. 
On removing the stomach an abscess was found adjacent to 
the reticulum. It contained a quantity of pus, and a piece of 
steel wire, apparently about two inches of a knitting needle. 
^be tumor in the throat was about the size of a large 
orange. It consisted of dense fibrous tissue, in the centre of 
which was a cavity, containing a pus-like fluid ; this cavity had 
several chambers communicating with each other. It was evi- 
dentlv tubercular. 
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On the serous coat of the rumen there were a number of 
