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thelial desquamation with scaling sets in, with separation also 
of brownish or blackish crusts.— (^Berl. Thiei'-drst IVoc/i.) 
Hydrometra in a Non-Pregnant Cow. —I found in a 
cow marked dyspnoea, an exceedingly large abdomen, hard to the 
touch, loss of appetite ; the cow would not get up on her feet. 
By closing both nostrils with the hands and thus increasing the 
dyspnoea already present, the cow in her efforts to get air jumped 
to her feet, but could only be kept upright and on her feet by 
the combined efforts of several men. Kxamination showed 15 
cm. inwards from the orifice of the vagina a stricture at the site 
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of which the overlying mucous membranes were adherent. 
There was no difficulty in urination, as this adhesion did not 
occlude the meatus urinarius. Accouchment being expected in 
four weeks J. concluded to open np the stenosis vaginae in order 
to get at the uterine orifice. In trying to open up the stenosis 
J. found that the uterine orifice was enmeshed or included in the 
stenosis, upon entering which orifice (uterine) 60—80 litres of 
turbid fluid escaped without any trace of a foetus being present. 
—{^BerL TJiierdi'zt. Woc/i^ 
ENGLISH REVIEW. 
Docking of Horses. —This question is seriously agitated 
in the English press. It originated after a prosecution started 
by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
against a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. 
The trial brought before the court a number of veterinary cele- 
brites of England, among them Prof. Pritchard, for the prosecu¬ 
tion, and Prof. Williams, Prof. Axe, Mr. Dollar, and many others 
for the defence. The court dismissed the case. Since the Vet¬ 
erinary Record in several issues has published communications 
relating to the subject, and the veterinarian of the prosecution 
is receiving many remarks of unfavorable criticism. From the 
reading of these communications it is pretty evident that docking 
is not an operation that veterinarians will have to take off from" 
their surgery. What is very peculiar, however, in the history 
of the case is the reference which is made to American horses, 
which, it was claimed were not docked. It is true that in some 
parts of the United States, docking is not permitted, that the 
veterinarian is amenable to the law, that, in fact, veterinarians 
have been condemned in court for it (we believe), but with all 
that, it was a poor statement to make, for the operation is ex¬ 
tensively performed in some states, in large cities, where societies 
