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to rupturing C3'Sts or detaching persistent hypertrophied corpora 

 lutea, it has happened to us in four cases in high bred, excitable 

 heifers and j-oung cows (never in adults), owing to sudden 

 straining or the sudden dropping of the lumbo-sacral articulation, 

 that the grasped ovary, attached to the fine, tense ligament, is 

 unexpectedly torn away from its attachments and remains in the 

 hand, to later fall into the abdominal cavity. The same misfor- 

 tune can occur by drawing the ovary too far backward when 

 grasped /^T rectum or vagi^iavi. In all such cases, the ligament- 

 ous apparatus should be immediately and carefully examined in 

 order that hemorrhage, if present, may be controlled by compres- 

 sion. In two of these cases we clearly felt per rectum the pulsa- 

 ting, bleeding ovarian artery, which we compressed, as well as 

 possible, for twenty minutes. Of the four cases, one failed to 

 again show estrum, but the other three all conceived. 



It is well to bear in mind that, after the total ablation of an 

 ovar5% as also after the pressing out of large, fresh corpora lutea 

 and vigorous after-compression of the ovary, the animal now and 

 then shows, for 30-60 minutes, sligiit colic symptoms (castration 

 colic), such as uneasiness, suspension of feeding, elevation of the 

 tail without tympany, which symptoms .spontaneously di.sappear 

 in a short time. 



F. Laceration of the Rectum. 



This accident occurs mostly in delicately built heifers with a 

 narrow rectum, or in good milch cows in which the rectum pos- 

 sesses very slight resistant power and, even by very slight pres- 

 sure, is lacerated. These rather frequent lacerations, due con- 

 stantly to improper palpation, may involve only the mucosa or 

 include the mu.scular, and even the serous coats. 



While .scratches and lacerations in the mucosa of the pelvic 

 portion of the rectum from too long finger nails is as a rule 

 inconsequential, extensive lacerations of the mucosa and muscu- 

 laris lead readily to rectal strictures and to adhesions of the rectum 

 to the surrounding parts. Small penetrant wounds in the pelvic 

 rectum, which quickly close, lead to exten.sive suppuration or 

 septic phlegmon in the peri-rectal or peri-vaginal connective 

 tissue and thereby cause compression of the rectum with long 

 continued straining and pressure upon the feces, marked narrow- 

 ing of the rectum and vagina, adhesions of the rectum to its sur- 



