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EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES. 
Ovaro-hysterectomy of the Pregnant Uterus [By C. 
/. Rix, M. R. C. V. S .].—This case relates the operation of 
ovaro-hysterectomy performed on a terrier bitch weighing 2 y 2 
pounds which had been mated with a large dog and had been 
in labor for about twelve hours. The uterus contained two 
large pups, one quite large, which had been much injured by 
the efforts made to deliver it, the other was taken and dried, 
wrapped in cotton wool and put in a warm place. Three hours 
later it was given to a cat which had recently had kittens. The 
bitch recovered without any trouble. The puppy was thor¬ 
oughly attended to by its foster mother until it could be weaned. 
—( Journ. Comp. Path, and Therap.) 
A High Temperature [By Harold Leeney\.— Whether a 
case of deferred parturient apoplexy, or sunstroke, or a mixture 
of both, that the author had to deal with he does not decide. 
An aged cow which had calved nine days previous was down 
and unable to rise. Her neck was crooked, her eyes staring, 
but she appeared to be fully conscious. The pulse was almost 
imperceptible and respiration too rapid to be counted. She had 
been exposed to the sun, which had been beating on her with 
tropical severity. The thermometer was introduced into her 
rectum on two occasions and registered iio°F. at the extreme 
top of the tube. With heart stimulants, spinal sedatives, laxa¬ 
tives and frictions, the cow recovered in two days.— [Vet. Jour¬ 
nal. ) 
Inherited Maeformation [By /. /. Lodwick] This re¬ 
lates to a Welsh mountain ram which had covered a number 
of Welsh ewes and when slaughtered by the butcher was found 
to have only one kidney. His progeny which were afterwards 
slaughtered proved to be affected in the same way—they had 
but one kidney each.— (Vet. Journal.) 
Proeapsus Recti [By J. H. Parker , M. R. C. V. S.].— 
A Shorthorn yearling bullwhenever approached or disturbed in 
any way would strain and evert the rectum for about one foot 
and then suddenly draw it back again. Sometimes he seemed 
to improve, but soon had a relapse, and as at that time the rec¬ 
tal mucous membrane became diseased and bled at each pro¬ 
lapse, the animal being still in good condition, was sent to the 
butcher and slaughtered. At the post-mortem the left vesiculae 
serninalis was found diseased, and behind it, above the root of 
the penis, close to the neck of the bladder, there was a cyst as 
large as a duck’s egg containing brownish colored fluid. The 
left vas deferens was inflamed and the vesiculse serninalis of the 
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