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The Legend of a Glass Eye
A Cannibal Cat
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condition, and Mr. Mathias, who made the post-mortem examination, reported no evidence of any disease in any of the other organs. The accompanying plate is a photograph taken recently of the preserved specimen. The series of enlargements proved to b e large cysts embedded in the uterine wall some two or three b eing open to the lumen of the uterus, hence the watery discharge through the cervix into the vagina.
THE LEGEND OF A GLASS EYE. By HERBERT B UC KINGHAM, M.R.C.V.S., Norwich .
T ELEPHONE call, "Come and see my new dog's eye." I went at once and was invited into a room divided into dining and drawing rooms by folding doors. I was in the former part of it and owner and dog came in. I looked at the dog's eye. The lady, ancient, majt'stic and truthful, told me she was sure the dog's eye was normal when it came yesterday and when it was left at night in the drawing room: that the housemaid swept that room out. The maid said the sweepings were still in the dustpan. I asked her to bring it, and a newspaper. She did so. I then emptied the contents of dustpan on to the newspaper and a glass eye was revealed. Needless to say, the orbit was minus its eyeball and had been healed a long time. I advised the lady to send the dog back to the seller. I could not see much sense in the trick, but-there are" all sorts" in the population of the world.
A CANNIBAL CAT. Ey HERBERT BUCKINGHAM, lItRC.V.S., Noy ·:,:ich.
I HAVE a " hobby," viz. , curing and dres!':ing cats' and dogs' skins. I have a cat about nine months old. This cat is always at my heels when I trim the fat, etc., from the skins, and the cat will eat the fat as it falls to the ground, whether it comes off a eat's or a dog's skin. He will often eat more than is good for him and be " off colour " for two days. Until now I should have said that you could not induce a cat to eat any product from the carcase of a cat or dog.
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condition, and Mr. Mathias, who made the post-mortem examination, reported no evidence of any disease in any of the other organs. The accompanying plate is a photograph taken recently of the preserved specimen. The series of enlargements proved to b e large cysts embedded in the uterine wall some two or three b eing open to the lumen of the uterus, hence the watery discharge through the cervix into the vagina.
THE LEGEND OF A GLASS EYE. By HERBERT B UC KINGHAM, M.R.C.V.S., Norwich .
T ELEPHONE call, "Come and see my new dog's eye." I went at once and was invited into a room divided into dining and drawing rooms by folding doors. I was in the former part of it and owner and dog came in. I looked at the dog's eye. The lady, ancient, majt'stic and truthful, told me she was sure the dog's eye was normal when it came yesterday and when it was left at night in the drawing room: that the housemaid swept that room out. The maid said the sweepings were still in the dustpan. I asked her to bring it, and a newspaper. She did so. I then emptied the contents of dustpan on to the newspaper and a glass eye was revealed. Needless to say, the orbit was minus its eyeball and had been healed a long time. I advised the lady to send the dog back to the seller. I could not see much sense in the trick, but-there are" all sorts" in the population of the world.
A CANNIBAL CAT. Ey HERBERT BUCKINGHAM, lItRC.V.S., Noy ·:,:ich.
I HAVE a " hobby," viz. , curing and dres!':ing cats' and dogs' skins. I have a cat about nine months old. This cat is always at my heels when I trim the fat, etc., from the skins, and the cat will eat the fat as it falls to the ground, whether it comes off a eat's or a dog's skin. He will often eat more than is good for him and be " off colour " for two days. Until now I should have said that you could not induce a cat to eat any product from the carcase of a cat or dog.