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if you think the subject interesting or useful. Meanwhile I will, 
on the present opportunity, give you a case as an illustration of my 
practice in such matters, if you deem it worthy of a place in The 
Veterinarian ; and with undiminished kind respects I remain, 
Your’s sincerely. 
A CASE OF CARTILAGINOUS STRICTURE OF THE 
OS UTERI IN A COW. 
By the same. 
These cases have come rather frequently under me during my 
practice, and in various degrees of intensity. I have generally 
found the subjects of it to be in their first or second gestation, and 
at various periods of their pregnancy. The subject of this case was 
bought at a fair, consequently no certainty of her proper time of 
parturition could be relied on. On my visiting her on the 15th of 
May, 1843, I found that she was, and had been for three or four 
hours, straining and throwing very violently in her efforts to expel 
the foetus ; and three old persons, who were considered clever at 
these cases, had been long trying to extract it, but at last gave it 
up, saying they could not tell what to make of it. The whole 
vagina and part of the uterus was projecting, with the feet of the 
foetus inside. This projecting mass extended ten or twelve inches 
from the labia, with the orifice of the os uteri so completely closed 
that it would not admit my little finger. 
On examining her udder and other parts, I came to the opinion 
that she was not at her full time to parturiate ; I therefore reduced 
the whole of the expelled substance, and immediately applied trusses, 
which I always keep by me for such purposes. I gave her a 
dose of anodyne medicine, and allowed the trusses to remain on 
twenty-four hours. After the trusses were applied she was settled 
and easy in a minute, in which state she continued until the 29th, 
when she again began to be as violent as before. Finding that she 
was not quite ready in other respects, I again reduced the parts, and 
re-applied the trusses and medicine. 
June 1$£. — She shewed every proper symptom of her true time 
having arrived, and commenced making every attempt to expel 
the calf, but to no purpose, as the os uteri was as close as ever. 
I, therefore, began to operate by dividing the osseous cartilage with 
an instrument of my own inventing, and which I have used many 
years. In a few minutes I extracted with ease a fine calf alive. 
