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him to have immediate recourse to the Caesarean operation as 
the only means of saving her and the calf. The operation was 
performed, and the calf was extracted alive ; but the cow died 
eight or nine days after, in consequence, it was supposed, of 
the non-absorption of five or six pounds of blood which had 
escaped into the abdomen. 
Another case is related, by M. Gohier, of a cow that could 
not calve in consequence of there being an ossific tumour occu- 
pying one-third of the pelvic cavity, produced by a fracture of 
the ileum, near the hip-joint. The operation was performed, 
and the cow did well. 
M. Chariot also practised this operation on a cow that for 
three days had been cruelly suffering, and was unable to expel 
the foetus in consequence of a vaginal cystocele, which presented 
itself in the form of a round tumour, tense and fluctuating. 
There was, in fact, a laceration of the inferior portion of the 
vagina, through which the bladder had protruded itself. This 
was discovered after death, for the cow died soon after her de- 
livery. The calf survived. 
Mr. Praddal also operated on a cow that had passed her usual 
period of gestation, and was continually making those efforts 
that accompany parturition. The calf lived, and was put on 
a nurse-cow. She liked it, and permitted it to suck as readily 
as though it had been her own offspring. The cow was then de- 
stroyed by the butcher. This was, on every account, a great 
pity. Dissection of the uterus exhibited a scirrhous degeneracy 
of the neck of that organ, and so dense that it offered as much 
resistance to the scalpel as the cartilages of the larynx would 
have done. 
We now return to our own country. 
In the same volume of The VETERINARIAN there are some 
excellent cases and observations by Mr. J. Hayes, V.S., Roch- 
dale, Lancashire, who says, “ I have performed and assisted in 
the operation in nine cases, five of which were successful, and 
four terminated unsuccessfully.” 
The first case, which was in May, 1824, was an experimental 
one on a bitch that was at her full time of gestation. From 
her he extracted six puppies from the uterus, all alive, but one 
died next day ; the others were suckled by the bitch, and grew 
up. The mother recovered in six weeks. 
In March, 1825, he operated on a cow belonging to Mr. John 
Clarke, of Ashley Dairy House, Cheshire, that had been in 
labour several days ; and which had been attended by three or 
four persons considered well versed in such matters. Owing, 
however, to the head lying behind, they were not able to remove 
it. Mr. H. removed the fore extremities, but found the head so 
