ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 865 
ing with atropia on rabbits. We have not space to insert 
Mr. Mayor’s paper at length, and perhaps it will be best that 
some of the more general statements which he makes as to 
the effect of drugs on temperature should be carefully revised 
by him, as they seriously conflict with the results obtained 
by a large number of competent investigators. But, in re- 
gard to atropia, he has advanced some unquestionably 
interesting and valuable facts, which are recorded with a 
minuteness that entitles them to credit. — Lancet. 
Analysis of Continental Journals. 
By W. Ernes, M.R.C.V.S., London. 
TWO CASES OF TWISTING OF THE UTEJEtUS. 
By J. M. Contamine, Y.S., Belgium. 
M. Contamine enters into a long account of the different 
authors who have written on twisting of the uterus, by 
some described as torsion of the neck of the uterus, and 
he has also something to say on the priority of the best mode 
of treatment to be adopted in these cases, which are common 
in the bovine species, though very rare in the equine ; dis- 
putes having arisen amongst veterinary celebrities, in claim- 
ing for their countries the first description of twisting of the 
uterus. If the first description has been contested with so 
much animosity, there is a strong reason why the Belgian 
veterinary surgeons should claim for one of their col- 
leagues the honour of having first discovered the best mode 
of treatment to remedy this accident. In fact no journal, 
anterior to 1852, appears to have described the simple method 
for the treatment of twisting of the uterus, which appeared in 
the Annals of Veterinary Medicine of that year, p. 451. M. 
Ty vaert, veterinary surgeon at Couckelaere, gave advice to roll 
the animal for five or six minutes, principally on the opposite 
side to the torsion, ascertaining at every turn the position of 
the vagina. From that time no author (with the exception 
of M. Elsen, sen., of Yilvorde ; M. Fisher, the distinguished 
veterinary surgeon of Luxemburg, and M. Legrand de 
Gozee, in Hainault) has mentioned the name of our col- 
league. On the contrary, a great number of veterinary prac- 
titioners would seem to have been very ingenious in finding 
curative means for twisting of the uterus, some of which are 
very complicated and frequently hasten death, while they en- 
deavour to bury in oblivion the simple method of our col- 
league, which is very rarely unsuccessful. For my part, says 
