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PARALYSIS IN A COW. 
foal. On my arrival I was informed that the labour pains 
had commenced two or three hours previously, out without 
any appearance of the foal. On introducing my hand into 
the uterus, I found the foal so situated that there was 
scarcely any difficulty in placing it in a proper position ; 
but while I was attempting to bring one of the fore feet 
through the os uteri, the mare strained very violently, and 
which led to an immediate protrusion of a portion of the 
vagina in the form of a large bladder, close to my shoulder. 
Immediately afterwards the vagina burst, and a quantity of 
the intestines gushed out through the rent, the mare falling 
down at the same instant. The mucous membranes of the 
mouth and nose became blanched almost immediately, and 
the pulse so tremulous and weak as scarcely to be felt. I 
told the owner that internal hemorrhage was going on, and 
that the mare would quickly sink. 
In about fifteen minutes she was dead, and on opening 
her I found a large quantity of blood in the abdomen, from a 
rupture two or three inches in length, in one of the common 
iliac veins. A great deal of blood had also escaped from 
the rent in the vagina. The foal was a very fine one, but 
dead. 
As a very similar case to this appeared in the Veterinarian 
for last month, you may perhaps not see fit to insert it, but 
I send it, because it shows the necessity of attending as 
quickly as possible to mares when they are foaling. Any 
man of ordiuary intelligence might have saved the mare 
in question, had he been early with her, and properly adjusted 
the foal at the commencement of the labour. 
PARALYSIS IN A COW, ASSOCIATED WITH 
FIBRINOUS DEPOSITS. 
By the Same. 
About the beginning of this month, July, a farmer re- 
quested me to see one of his cows which had been paralysed 
for two days previously. The cow was a young one, hardly 
full grown. She had never shown any symptoms of illness 
until about a week before, when she began to walk stiffly, 
and gradually became worse, until she was unable to rise. 
A tumour had been observed on the left shoulder about 
the time she was first taken ill, which the owner had opened, 
