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DOUBLE CASTRATION. 
By Mr. Ferrier. 
* This is a case of the permanent ratting condition of a cow 
upon which double castration had been performed. But notwith¬ 
standing the operation, the animal continued to exhibit a periodi¬ 
cal conjestive condition of the neck of the genital organs. When 
killed it was found that a portion of one ovary had maintained its 
attachment to the stump of the broader ligament.— Journ. de 
Soc. Scientif. 
CURIOUS ANOMALY IN A CALF. 
By Mr. Barrier. 
A calf, born at term, and in good health, was without anus or 
vulva. The skin of the perineum, which was very fine, showed 
no mark of the anus, and the vulva was, strictly speaking, rudi¬ 
mentary. On the median raphe, a small cutaneous eminence only 
appeared, covered with fine hairs, and somewhat resembling the 
lower commissure of the vulva. In the middle of the eminence 
was a very small opening, scarcely allowing the introduction of a 
fine probe. Within an hour after its birth the little animal was 
making constant and violent expulsive efforts, but of course with¬ 
out result, except that at each effort, at the place where the anus 
ought to be, there appeared a tumor of the size of a hen’s egg. Of 
course it became necessary to furnish a vulva at once; which a 
cut of the bistoury sufficed to do, and the escape of a mixture of 
urine and meconium immediately followed. Exploration revealed 
the rectum as a natural opening in the roof of the vagina, about 
four centimeters in front of the proper seat of that opening. 
An operation was then devised for the formation of an artifi¬ 
cial anus, which an incision of the bistoury soon accomplished. 
A few stiches brought the edges of the skin and rectal mucous 
membrane together, and the animal was soon able to defecate 
through the artificial exit. Three months have elapsed, and the 
heifer has become well grown and is in perfect health, with the 
exception that though some of the foeees pass through the artiti- 
nial anus, a large portion of them is ejected by the vulv.i.— Jow'n. 
de Soc. Scientif. 
