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the assistants pressing on the liead and x^i'esenting limb or on a repel- 

 ler planted in the breast until the knee can be brought up into the 

 I)elvis, after -syhich the procedure is the same as described in the last 

 I)aragrai)h. 



HEAD BENT DOWN BETWEEN THE FORE-LIMBS. 



This ma}' be so that the poll or naj)o of the neck with the ears can 

 be felt far back between the fore-limbs, or so that only the upper 

 border of the neck can be reached, head and neck being bent back 

 beneath the body. AVith the head only bent on the neck, noose the 

 two j)resenting limbs, then introduce the hand between them until 

 the nose can be seized in the palm of the hand. Next have the assist- 

 ants push back the presenting limbs, while the nose is strongly lifted 

 upward over the lirim of the pelvis. This accomplished it assumes 

 the natural position and parturition is eas}'. 



When both head and neck are bent downward it maj* be impossible 

 to reach the nose. If, however, the labor has only commenced, the 

 limbs may be drawn upon until the operator can reach the ear, l^y 

 dragging on which the head may be so far advanced that the fingers 

 may reach the orbit; traction upon this while the limbs are being- 

 pushed back may bring the head uj) so that it bends on the neck only, 

 and the further iDrocedure will be as described in the last paragraph. 



If the labor has been long in progress and the foetus is jammed into 

 the pelvis, the womb emptied of the waters and firmly contracted on 

 its solid contents, the case is incomparably more difficult. The mare 

 may be chloroformed and turned on her back with hind parts elevated, 

 and the womb may bo injected with sweet-oil. Then, if the ear can 

 be reached, the correction of the mal-i^resentation may be attempted 

 as above described. Should this fail one or more sharp hooks may be 

 inserted in the neck as near the head as can be reached, and ropes 

 attached to these may be dragged on, while the body of the foal is 

 pushed back by the fore-limbs or hy a repeller. Such repulsion 

 should be made in a direction obliquely upward toward the loins of 

 the mother so as to rotate the fa^tus in such a waj' as to bring the 

 head up. As this is accomplished a hold should be secured nearer 

 and nearer to the nose, with hand or hook, until the head can be 

 straightened out on the neck. 



All means failing, it becomes necessary- to remove the fore-limbs 

 {emhryoioinij) so as to make more space for bringing uj) the head. If, 

 even then, this can not be accomplished, it may be i)ossible to push 

 the body backward and ujaward with the repeller until the hind-limbs 

 are brought to the passage, when they may be noosed and delivery 

 effected with the jjosterior presentation. 



HEAD TURNED BACK ON THE SHOULDER. 



In this case, the fore-feet present, and the oiled hand passed along 

 the fore-arms in search of the missing head finds the side af the neck 



