ON AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS. 
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asked, “ what good will the Charter do us ? ” and have heard this 
alleged as a reason for withholding subscriptions to it. Would that 
gentlemen entertaining such sentiments would ponder ere they 
gave utterance to them. Surely, they cannot suppose that the 
Charter, like harlequin’s wand, can, at once , turn their horse- 
shoes into gold ] If the Charter rear up a generation of veteri- 
narians as superior to their uneducated and unlicensed competi- 
tors as the surgeons of the present day are to the barber-sur- 
geons of old, is that to be accounted as nothing] “No! but 
the Charter will not put down my neighbour the farrier; nor 
would it prevent him writing upon his board, ' veterinary sur- 
geon.’” The former — the “putting down” — we repeat, must be 
done, and will be done by superior attainments and qualifica- 
tions ; the latter, we must confess, we wish had been done by the 
act of the Charter : however, since it has not, we would counsel 
every regular practitioner, experiencing any such knavish opposi- 
tion, to superscribe his premises with the words, “ Member OF 
the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.” 
ON AMPUTATION OF THE UTERUS. 
By Mr. W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.V.S. 
Cases requiring excision of the uterus are very uncommon ; I 
never heard of but one in my neighbourhood, and that was in a 
cow. In this instance the uterus had been trodden on, badly in- 
jured by the adjoining cow, and could not be returned. She was 
afterwards fed and did well ; but I am sorry that I cannot give the 
particulars of the case. 
In the cow and mare the protruded viscus was uncommonly 
large, especially in the former, and it would not be at all impro- 
bable, from the excessive constitutional irritation that would take 
place, that the animal would die ere it sloughed off. Whenever 
cases occur that cannot be renovated, we have no alternative but 
to apply the ligature and excise the uterus below, so as to take off 
the dragging pressure. 
The best plan, I think, would be to have several ligatures, each 
of which should take in only a portion of the uterus, by which 
means we should be able to stop the circulation better than by a 
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