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A CASE OF INVERSION AND EXCISION OF THE 
UTERUS IN A SOW. 
By Mr. Gregory, V.S., Storrington . 
1 HAVE read with much pleasure the letters in the last number 
of The Veterinarian, on flooding and inversion of the uterus ; 
and, observing by the table of Mr. Anderson of Leicester, that his 
cases of inversion in the sow have proved fatal, I send the follow- 
ing case of inversion and excision of the uterus. It is the only 
case I ever met with in the sow. If you think it worth a place 
in your columns, it is at your service. It will afford me great 
pleasure, should my treatment of the case be of any service to other 
country practitioners ; for, like Mr. King, sen., I attend any case 
my employers wish me to do. 
On the 21st of August last my attendance was requested to a 
sow, the property of Mr. Coldman, miller, of this place. On my 
arrival I found a complete inversion of the uterus, and which in 
her struggles the sow had lacerated to a fearful extent ; there was 
also great constitutional disturbance and prostration of strength. 
The sow had been left about eight hours, and was apparently well. 
I feared that, if I returned the uterus in the state it was in, morti- 
fication would ensue. I stated my fears to Mr. C., who told me 
to do as I thought best. I immediately applied a ligature to the 
uterine vessels, and excised the whole body of the uterus. 
The sow continued straining ; and I administered an opiate, and 
after that a dose or two of opening and tonic medicine. She did 
well, and when killed in the spring of this year weighed thirty- 
five stone. 
I recollect once meeting with a case of inversion in the cow, in 
which every attempt to retain the uterus in its place was useless, 
and she was destroyed ; but, should I ever meet with such a 
case again, I should act differently from what I then did. 
ON THE CHLORIDE OF LIME. 
By Mr. E. C. Reed, Buntingford. 
EARLY on the morning of the 23d of April I was called to 
attend a cow that was ill, and said to be in a great deal of pain. 
On my arrival, I found the animal suffering from flatulent colic. 
She was continually getting up, and lying down immediately — 
