ON THE CAESAREAN OPERATION. 185 
coats of the uterus and muscles of the abdomen and other parts 
of the body, as I have seen and recorded. 
I will now give an account of the cases wherein the operation 
has been performed. The first on record that I can find in 
English journals, which was an unsuccessful one, was on a 
valuable heifer, the property of the Rev. H. Berry. It was one 
of extra-uterine fetation ; for on introducing the hand into the 
womb no fetus could be felt, and every part requisite for the 
performance of parturition was distended. The operation was 
performed by his medical attendant, (vide The VETERINARIAN, 
vol. vii, pp. 60-6). 
The following case (see The VETERINARIAN, vol. xii, p. 709) 
was communicated by Mr. John Ellis, V.S., Liverpool. He 
says, “ I met with a strange collection of monsters the other 
day. Six sows, belonging to a gentleman whose stock I attend, 
all produced young ones blind. The greater part of them were 
without any semblance of an eye. The orbit was quite empty. 
Some of them had four ears each. Only four of the whole lot 
lived. They were either brought forth dead, or they died im- 
mediately after birth. One sow could not farrow any of her 
young ones. They were three times the proper size, and in a 
state of decomposition. 
As there was no prospect of otherwise saving the sow, I 
determined on performing the Caesarean operation, one I had 
successfully performed twice on the bitch. I did not find any 
difficulty in the operation ; but I had delayed it too long, and 
in consequence she lived but three hours afterwards. I wish 
I had operated the day before, for I am persuaded that the 
result then would have been different. These pigs were all 
got by the same boar, but the sows were of different breeds. 
There was no previous circumstance to account for these strange 
freaks of Nature.” 
The next case (see The Veterinarian, vol. xiii, p. 121) 
is by Mr. J. B. Carlisle, of Wigton, who operated on a sow that 
had been in labour six days, and was ten days over her time in 
pigging. The operation was performed on the 11th of July, 
1839, and in a very short time she recovered. The pigs, seven 
in number, were dead. 
Mr. Carlisle observes, “ This case, however, does not stand 
unrivalled, even in my county, Cumberland. About sixteen 
years ago, a farrier of the name of Walker, residing at Brump- 
ton, near Carlisle, performed the operation on a mare with 
success. The particulars of the case I cannot now relate, being 
at that time quite young ; but I recollect that the poor animal 
was sadly mutilated.” 
Mr. Youatt, then Editor of The VETERINARIAN, observes 
