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The finding of the lead caused interested owners to search the 
pasture, where several paint cans and a paint brush were collected. 
It was supposed that they found their way to the field from some 
buildings that had recently been erected in the neighborhood. 
I would like to ask the attention of professional readers to the 
fact that I did not find -some of the symptoms, as recorded in the 
books, so marked in the animals which came under my observa¬ 
tion as they would lead me to expect. How long the lead had been 
in the systems of the animals it is impossible to say, but the ag¬ 
gravated symptoms were of short duration, a few days only, and 
not prolonged to weeks and months as Finlay Dun states in his 
Materia Medica. In one of the post mortems I found on opening 
the cranial cavity that the brain was greatly congested, and the 
blood vessels engorged. The organ mostly diseased was the liver. 
But to attempt, on this occasion, to particularize or differentiate 
between pathological conditions, as revealed by the autopsies, and 
those recorded in the text books, would exceed the scope of this 
communication, which is merely intended as a brief report of lead 
poisoning on a large scale, and for that reason may find a place in 
the pages of the Review. 
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A CASE OF EXTRA-UTERINE FCETATION IN THE BITCH. 
By J. H. Carter, M.R.C.Y.S. 
The following remarkable case came under my notice on the 
26tli of February last, when I was hastily summoned in the early 
morning to make a post mortem examination of a mastiff bitch 
which had died very suddenly and unexpectedly during the night, 
she being apparently in excellent health only a few hours pre¬ 
viously to being found dead. 
Owing to death taking place in such a sudden and mysterious 
manner, my first impressions were those of poisoning; but before 
expressing such I made inquiries as to her previous history, and was 
informed as folhrws: 
The bitch was purchased on the 1st of July last, and three 
weeks prior to this date was delivered of three dead pups. She 
