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which, was distended into a peariform shape, and seemed joined by one common neck. The portion lying in the right side was considerably the largest and was about the size of a small pullets egg. Each had an ovarian tube rising from its base which running near three inches terminated in the ovaria. The neck of the uterus was half an inch in length, and was of a considerable breadth and thickness. The lateral canal rose, one on each side, from the under surface of the neck near its junction with the uterus, and ran nearly two inches, forming in their course a considerable curvature, then terminated obliquely in the vagina.
Having dissected out the uterus with its appendages, I made a more particular examination and discovered the following remarkable appearances. The vagina which ran pretty deep terminated at the commencement of the above mentioned neck, and there, too, I found the termination of the lateral canals between which opened the meatus urinarius. There were two other orifices, the canals of which were impervious owing to a thick gelatinous matter which filled them. These last mentioned formed the neck and terminated each in a distinct uterus. In each side of the meatus urinarius was placed a slender fleshy pedicle.
From the distended state of the uteri I had reason to suppose they contained conceptions. In order to ascertain this I made a longitudinal incision through the side of the largest, [indecipherable] I found it lined with the same gelatinous matter that filled the canals. Continuing the incision through the matter and at the same time using gentle pressure, there issued a quantity of thin pellucid fluid accompanied by an embryo wrapped up in very fine membranes in which there appeared to be enveloped