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eat and drink as usual. Shortly after, the attendants perceived, 

 between the lips of the vulva, two white soft tumors, which they 

 took for inverted uterus, and at once hastened for the cow 

 doctor. Meanwhile, a neighbor thinking he recognized in 

 them the water bags, pricked them, and on the escape of the 

 water another calf was seen, with a natural presentation, which 

 was soon delivered by the efforts of the mother. This was 

 immediately followed by a fourth, which was also easily ex- 

 pelled. These two last, the first a female, the last a male, died 

 in a few seconds ; though doubtless, had the liquor amnii been 

 at once evacuated, both might have survived, as they were 

 even stronger than- the two first. They were very fat, and 

 weighed, when given to the butcher, 25 killogrammes each. 

 • " The cow which has shown such remarkable fecundity (five 

 calves in one year) has all along preserved the most perfect 

 health." — Translations by Mr. Gamgee. 



Remarhahle Fecundation in a Cow. — Mr. M. B. Forbes 

 sent the London (Eng.) Veterinarian the following partic- 

 ulars relating to the birth of five calves at one time : " A 

 cow of the short-horned breed, six years old, the property of 

 Mr. Richard Knight, farmer, Santon, about a mile from Rye- 

 gate, was safely delivered on Monday morning, the 21st of 

 February, three weeks before her time, of five calves — four 

 bulls and one cow. Three of the calves died a few hours after 

 birth, but the fourth survived until Tuesday, and the fifth until 

 the following day, Wednesday." Mr. Forbes saw the cow on 

 the 23d, and found her going on well. It was her third 

 calvinir. 



DISEASES OF THE GENERATIVE ORGANS. 



CONSTRICTION AT THE NECK OF THE UTERUS. 



Owing to some abnormal condition of the neck of the uterus, 

 it is occasionslly the seat of constriction ; the difficulty can 

 only be determined by introducing the hand into the vagina, 



