Unusual Case of Obstetrics* 



By Dr. H. Jensen, Kansas City, Missouri 



A gentleman called at my office stating that 

 one of his valuable brood mares was having labor 

 pains though she was not due to foal for a couple 

 of months. A few doses of viburnum was pre- 

 scribed and I heard nothing more about the 

 matter. 



About two months later I was called to his 

 place and informed that in the forenoon this 

 mare had given birth to a dead colt but kept on 

 straining. On examination I found lodged in the 

 OS a scapula, and in the uterus I found the com- 

 plete skeleton of another foal. All the soft struc- 

 tures were gone, the bones all disarticulated but 

 no decomposition. The uterus had contracted 

 considerably by this time, and a number of bones 

 were firmly imbedded in the folds of the uterus, 

 the womb was flushed a few times with antisep- 

 tic astringents and recovery of the mare followed. 



♦Reprinted from the Missouri Valley Veterinary Bulletin, August, 1909. 



