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that internal hemorrhage was going on. Anodynes were ad- 

 ministered, and quietude enjoined. 



^' No inflammatory symptoms supervened, and in the course 

 of ten days or a fortnight the animal had recovered. 



" The atrocious act is supposed to have been perpetrated by 

 some gypsies, who were located near the place at the time, 

 from their going in the following morning to beg the carcase, 

 thinking probably, that the poor animal was dead." — Veteri- 

 narian, 



RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS. 



Rupture of the uterus appears to be a very formidable 

 accident, yet many animals recover from the same without any 

 medical treatment. In rents of this kind, some persons resort 

 to sutures, but really they are not admissible ; they are only 

 in the way and prevent perfect contraction of the uterus. A 

 large rent, say one foot in length, in the uncontracted uterus is 

 diminished to very small proportions when the uterus contracts 

 to its ordinary size, and this very soon heals without the aid of 

 man, provided proper attention be given the animal. (See 

 quotations in the preceding article.) A rupture of this descrip- 

 tion usually occurs either from violence done the parts, in 

 extracting the foetus, or, by the violent throes of the foetus itself 

 or else by excessive uterine action. 



ABORTION IN COWS. 



The cow is the most liable of all domestic animals to abortion, 

 and those that have once been the subjects of this mishap are 

 liable to a recurrence of the same. Mr. Youatt, in his work on 

 cattle, furnishes some very useful information on this subject ; 

 still the direct causes of abortion are like many other 

 enzootic and epizootic affections, involved in obscurity. 



That it occasionaly rages as an enzootic pest, is clearly 

 shown by the records of the past, and by what occurred a short 

 time ago among the dairy cows of a milking establishment, at 



