656 AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS OF A EWE. 
orchis, as applied to our more common and prominent native 
species. 
Medicinal qualities have, from time to time, been ascribed 
to various species, but orchids have ever had but a slender 
hold upon the profession, and it must be confessed that, after 
all, the confectioner seems to get the best of the family — 
Vanilla planifolia , and others — from which is obtained the 
article known as “vanilla,” said by Prof. Lindley to be 
“ one of the most delightful aromatics known ; it is used in 
the manufacture of chocolate, of liqueurs, and of various 
articles of confectionery.” 
We have, then, in the plants of this order a most interest- 
ing series, in as far as structure is concerned ; hut numerous 
as are its species, they are scarcely sufficiently potent or nau- 
seous to obtain for them any great medicinal repute. 
{To be continued.) 
AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS OF A EWE. 
By H. Barnes, M.R.C.Y.S., Malpas. 
Hating seen hut very few cases of amputation of the uterus 
recorded in your valuable journal, I am induced to send 
you the particulars of one which came under my care a few 
months ago. 
Late in the evening of the 15th of April last I was requested 
to visit a ewe, the property of Mr. Brown, Old Hall, Malpas. 
I ascertained from the messenger that the ewe had everted 
the uterus, and that the owner not being at home at the time, 
his man had thought it advisable to send for a butcher and 
have the ewe slaughtered ; but, on examination, he — the 
butcher — found that the carcase would not be fit for human 
food, and, consequently, the animal was spared. On my 
arrival at the field, situated about a mile from the house, I 
found the poor animal with the remainder of the flock, and 
it was not without some difficulty that we succeeded in 
catching her. 
Upon inquiry I was informed that she had yeaned 
some five or six hours, and that the prolapsus had existed 
for at least four hours previously to my visit. I at once 
ordered her removal to the house, and after well cleansing 
and carefully examining the uterus, I found that it was 
very much torn, and also swollen from congestion to such an 
