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ON FLOODING AND INVERSION OF THE UTERUS 
IN THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
By Mr. James Anderson, V.S., Leicester. 
“ A wise physician, skill’d our wounds to heal, 
Is more than armies to the public weal.” Pope's Homer. 
With a view of responding to your correspondent, T. H. Bar- 
ker, Esq., Surgeon, Bedford, inserted in your last Number, p. 322, 
subjoined is my experience, the cases of two veterinary surgeons 
in my vicinity, who have kindly communicated the same, and an 
abstract of the principal cases on record — the result is entered in a 
Table under the proper heads applicable to each question proposed. 
MARES. 
Case 1. — I attended three years ago, at Barkbythorpe, in this 
county, a complete inversion, that terminated in death ; in this 
instance the patient, during the previous night, had fallen into a 
deep sawpit, which brought on labour : the accident immediately 
followed the expulsion of the foetus. Before my visit she was too 
much exhausted from hemorrhage, &c. to leave any chance of 
success. 
Case 2. — Mr. E. Bailey, eight years since, had a complete in- 
version, which followed a wrong presentation and difficult par- 
turition. The placenta attached, the whole would have filled a 
bushel : after having detached the after-birth, with much difficulty 
it was returned to its natural cavity. Cured. 
Case 3. — Vet., vol. xiv, p. 489. Inversion by Mr. Hors- 
burgh, V.S., Dalkeith. Three days after was replaced — no flood- 
ing. Cured. 
cows. 
Case 1. — On the l Oth of March 1842, I was called in by Mr. 
Munrow, of Leicester. The animal had calved in the former part 
of the day. I found a complete inversion of the uterus, hanging 
almost to the ground, the placenta still adhering; however, in a 
short time it came away. With great difficulty and hard labour 
I succeeded in returning the matrix into the proper situation, and 
passed a needle armed with a strong thong through the external 
parts of generation. The bearing down became so powerful, that 
the ligature would have ruptured the labia, if I had not ordered 
two men with a cloth to make pressure on the commissures for a 
considerable time, and, by exhibiting strong doses of crude opium, 
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