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EXTRACTS FROM FOREIGN JOURNALS. 
COMPLETE OBLITERATION OF THE BLADDER IN A SIX-WEEKS-OLD 
CALF-CONDITION COMPATIBLE WITH HEALTH. 
Br M. Lapotre. 
A young calf in good condition was slaughtered when six 
weeks old. This animal had always been very lively during its 
life, and had been exclusively fed on milk, which he drank with 
avidity. His owner says that the cutaneous transpiration was 
always very abundant, the hairs being always covered with a true 
dew of perspiration. The butcher, in dressing it, was surprised 
to find that the bladder presented anatomical characters which 
differed from anv he had ever observed before. He removed it 
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carefully, with the urethra and ureters, and sent it to me for 
examination. 
The bladder has the form and volume of a goose egg. The 
external surface is slightly ecchymosed. On pressing it between 
the fingers, no fluid escapes through the urethra, though the 
organ seems filled with a matter without consistency. The canal 
of the urachus is absent. A longitudinal incision made on the 
superior plane of the bladder, about two centimetres from the 
neck, shows it to be filled with greyish pus quite thick and odor¬ 
less, in the center of which float some quite thick masses, which 
seem of a sebaceous nature. The openings of the ureters are en¬ 
tirely obliterated by a little nodosity, indicating that no urine has 
at any time been poured into the bladder. There is no neck and 
there is no communication between the bladder and the urethra. 
The vesical mucous membrane, in a thickened state, almost fills the 
three openings of the organ, which represents, in this manner, a 
sort of vase hermetically closed. It is thus that in injecting 
water through the urethra it stops at the neck, which forms a 
true infundibulum of this canal. The ureters are larger in diame¬ 
ter than usual, and are hard and uncompressible under the fingers. 
Incised lengthwise, a reddish filamentous matter is found in them, 
which seems like clots of blood adherent to the mucous mem¬ 
brane. The kidneys offer nothing particular, though it is proba¬ 
ble that their function must have ceased .—Journal of Zootechnie. 
