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15/A. — Much the same as yesterday. Give of sublimed sulphur 
3iij- 
1 6/A. — Bowels not moved by the sulphur. He walks a little 
better, and takes some food. Ordered pulv. antimonial. 3j. One 
dose daily for a week. 
30/A. — Much better. Ordered infusion of buckthorn and minute 
doses of sulphuric acid. 
After this the animal continued to improve, got well, and was 
good pork for the butcher in the autumn. 
CASES OF INVERSION AND EXCISION OF THE 
UTERUS IN THE COW AND SHEEP. 
By Mr. Charles Gardner, V.S., County of Cork, Ireland. 
On reading the July number of The Veterinarian for 1844 
I find an article by Mr. Gregory, V.S., at Storrington, headed 
“ A Case of Inversion and Excision of the Uterus in a Sow.” 
This brings to my memory two similar cases that occurred in 
my practice in June 1843. The first was a sheep, the property 
of Mr. S. H., of the county of Cork. This gentleman, finding 
that he was not able to keep the uterus in its place, requested me 
to try what I could do with it. I told Mr. H. that, as the sheep 
was to be fatted, the womb was of no use to her, and we might as 
well cut it off*. This being determined on, I commenced as high 
up as I could, tying the uterine arteries as I came to them, and 
stitched the cut edges together in order to prevent an effusion of 
the intestines. No more care was taken with her than usual, and 
in ten days’ time she was caught for me to look at her, when I 
found that adhesion had taken place, and she was as well as ever. 
It so happened that Mr. J. H., near the same place, had a cow 
in which the uterus was inverted. The labia pudendi and uterus 
were here much injured; the latter from rough handling, and the 
former from pieces of wire having been passed through them. 
These having sloughed out, 1 need only to add, that the same ope- 
ration was followed by the same results, and that, although the 
cow was rendered useless for breeding purposes, she was not at all 
lessened in value for fattening. 
I do not quote these cases as any thing strange, but merely be- 
cause I think, when operated upon in this way, the patient suffers 
much less pain and the recovery is more expeditious than when 
removed by means of a ligature passed tightly round it, and allow- 
ing it to slough off. It also appears to me much more surgeon-like. 
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