COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE FEJVIUR. 
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epithelium; some portions of the internal surface were torn 
or broken away, and on other parts there were numerous 
projecting nodules of the size of a hazel nut, which, on being 
cut into, were found to contain a red fluid similar to that 
which filled the larger cavity; in every part of the stroma of 
the ovarium small cysts were met with, and many of them 
were becoming very thin in that part of the wall which pro¬ 
jected into the large cyst. 
The fluid in the larger cavity was found to be principally 
blood. Under the microscope the red discs were seen in 
abundance, and nearly fifty per cent, of them had assumed 
the stellate form ; there were besides a few white corpuscles, 
some granular cells, epithelial cells from the peritoneum, 
and small masses of fibrin. The tumour was too much de¬ 
composed to permit of its being injected, and consequently 
it was impossible to determine the arrangement of the vessels 
or to ascertain from what source the blood contained in the 
cavity had emanated. 
COMPOUND FRACTURE OF THE FEMUR. 
By W. H. Bulmer, M.R.C.V.S., Dover. 
The subject of my communication was a brown thorough¬ 
bred colt, 4 years old, which met with a fatal accident while 
being castrated, on the 7th inst. I had firmly secured my 
patient in the usual way for such an operation, and had re¬ 
moved one testicle from the scrotum : as soon as I made an 
incision in order to remove the second testicle, the colt 
struggled violently, when a distinct cracking noise was heard, 
resembling the sudden snap of a rope or a thick stick. My 
assistants, numbering 6, who helped me to secure the colt, 
noticed it, and we at once concluded that a rope had broken, 
but on examination we found such was not the case; on 
turning the colt on his side and liberating him, I noticed 
that he moved the uppermost hind leg in a peculiar manner, 
and when he attempted to rise he staggered and fell again; 
an examination of his hind legs led to the discovery of a frac¬ 
ture of the femur of the off* hind leg. I at once acquainted 
the owner of the accident, and he requested me to have the 
animal destroyed. On making a post-mortem examination 
of the limb the bone was found broken \xv eighteen pieces. 
Considering this an unusual case I shall be glad if you will 
