186 (JN THE CJESAREAN OPERATION. 
on this case of Mr. Carlisle’s, “ We are not aware of any other 
recorded case of the Caesarean operation, successful or unsuc- 
cessful, by one English veterinary surgeon but on referring to 
a quotation of his in a previous page, taken from his work on 
“ Cattle,” it will be seen that he himself had, in the year 1834, 
related two unsuccessful cases. Another was also unsuccessful 
in the Rev. H. Berry’s case, as above mentioned. Also Mr. 
Ellis’s. 
In The Veterinarian, vol. xiii, p 123, Mr. Youatt has 
translated several cases from Hurtrel D’Arboval’s Dictionary, by 
M. Morange ; and the first case was, I would say, a successful 
one in a cow ; but owing to the improvidence of the owner in 
giving her a quantity of lucerne on the sixteenth day after the 
operation, at a time when every thing was going on well, she 
died of “ hoove.” In this instance, the cow had gone thirty- 
seven days over her time, and the cause of the operation was a 
permanent closure of the os uteri. 
The next is an unsuccessful one, by M. Gohier, veterinary 
professor at Lyons. An ewe, four years old, was brought to him 
on account of protracted parturition. The animal had endured 
the extremest suffering during twelve hours. There were very 
slight efforts to expel the foetus — excessive debility — very great 
inflammation and swelling of the lips of the vulva; added to 
the evident death of the little one, and the appearance of about 
three inches of the anterior extremities, without that of the 
head, which was bent backwards over the withers. These 
were the principal symptoms that presented themselves, the 
laborious parturition appearing to be attributable to the narrow 
diameter of the pelvis. Many prolonged efforts were uselessly 
practised to effect the extraction of the lamb ; and perhaps they 
contributed, even more than the subsequent operation, to hasten 
a fatal termination of the case. The operation was performed ; 
but she died the following day. On making a post-mortem 
examination, the pelvic cavity was found to be small, as the 
consequence of a fracture of the ileum. The sacral bones formed 
a considerable obliquity in the cavity of the pelvis, and a slight 
exostosis had grown there, and the head of the foetus was 
arrested by it. The vagina and uterus were sadly bruised. 
Another case was by M. Chretin. A cow, nine years old, 
and in poor condition, had exceeded the period of pregnancy 
about twenty days. She was exceedingly irritable, and was 
making continual efforts to expel the foetus. The vulva was 
much inflamed, and on introducing the hand into the vagina, 
the neck of the uterus was found so swollen that the insinua- 
tion of the finger through it was scarcely possible. The suf- 
fering of the beast, and the imminent danger of the case, decided 
