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completely blocking up the passage. All were perfectly 
clean, with no admixture of any other food. The stomach 
was inflamed. 
Now, I was assured that this dog had eaten his usual food 
up to the night before. The impression upon my mind was 
that these bones had been some time, say for many days, or 
perhaps weeks, in the stomach, and that his regular meals 
must have been vomited, but that he could not dislodge the 
bones in this way. 
The third case was a large mastiff and retriever. I was 
called to him a few weeks ago. He had had no motion for 
four weeks . He was a voracious feeder. A few months pre¬ 
vious he had voided a large champagne cork. 
I injected enemas, passed my forefinger up the rectum, 
and gave various powerful purgatives. By external exami¬ 
nation, I could feel a very large solid substance in the bowels. 
He died at the end of three weeks, having been seven weeks 
without having had any passage whatever. 
On making a post-mortem examination, I found an accumu¬ 
lated mass of dry faeces, resembling half-baked, dark-coloured 
clay. It was not, however, gritty, but greasy on being 
rubbed between the finger and thumb. In form it resembled 
large German sausage. It weighed 2 lbs. 6 oz., was 19 
inches long, and 2| inches in diameter. It was so situated 
as to abut against the bones of the pelvis, apparently showing 
that if it had not been for this bony obstruction the bowel 
would have been expanded sufficiently to have allowed of its 
expulsion. 
SECRETION OE MILK BY A YEARLING FILLY. 
By Thomas D. Broad, M.R.C.V.S., Bath. 
A short time since I forwarded to you a bottle containing 
some milk taken from the mammary gland of a cart-filly now 
one year old, belonging to Mr. E. Mathews, of Bath, which 
had never been impregnated. In the early part of January 
the gland was first observed to be enlarged, and shortly after¬ 
wards it became very much distended, and milk constantly 
dropped from it as the animal walked about the field. A 
quart could be obtained at a milking. The filly was at 
that time in good condition, but gradually lost flesh up to 
the middle of March, at which time the flow of milk nearly 
