. Fig. 220—Necrotic Swine Embryo (right) with Necrotic Fetal Sac. The cadaver was expelled at full term with 8 healthy young. be four to six inches or more in length. The live embryos show great variations in size—sometimes 100 per cent, vari- ation in volume. The small fetus, the "runt" to be, is ap- parently small as a result of nutritive disturbances owing to the ravages of infection, and when born is wanting in vigor. Embryonic death may occur in any order, but as a rule the liability of the embryo to succumb to intra-uterine in- fection conforms to the general principles laid do


. Fig. 220—Necrotic Swine Embryo (right) with Necrotic Fetal Sac. The cadaver was expelled at full term with 8 healthy young. be four to six inches or more in length. The live embryos show great variations in size—sometimes 100 per cent, vari- ation in volume. The small fetus, the "runt" to be, is ap- parently small as a result of nutritive disturbances owing to the ravages of infection, and when born is wanting in vigor. Embryonic death may occur in any order, but as a rule the liability of the embryo to succumb to intra-uterine in- fection conforms to the general principles laid down for the cow. The most vulnerable points are the cervical end of the uterus and the apices of the cornua. As a rule the first to


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