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INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN A SOW. 
By W. A. Cartwright, M.R.C.V.S. Whitchurch, Salop. 
On the 16th of May 1845, I was sent for, in great haste, to a 
sow belonging to Mr. Bates of this town, that had inverted her uterus 
but a short time before. She had pigged eleven fine pigs without 
any difficulty in the course of the afternoon. It was completely 
inverted throughout the whole length of each cornu, which were 
fourteen or sixteen inches long. Unfortunately, where she lay there 
was a great quantity of cut straw upon the floor, which had become 
attached to the uterus, and which took us some minutes to remove. 
The mucous membrane was slightly torn in some places and 
bruised mothers, and was of a dark red colour. We had scarcely 
removed all the straw, and before we had made any attempts at its 
reduction, ere she died, which was not more than a quarter of an 
hour after my arrival to her ; but, unfortunately, they had engaged 
a drunken butcher to assist in holding her, who had been pulling 
her about a good deal and leaning on her, which I have no doubt 
hastened her death. I did not open her. 
I was informed, a few days after this occurred, that a miller re- 
siding at Tilston had a sow with her uterus down, and she also 
died a very short time afterwards. I never was called to one before, 
although I have been in practice for upwards of twenty years ; nor 
have I ever heard of one before in this neighbourhood. 
INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN A EWE. 
By the same. 
31st of May 1845, I was called, about 3 o’clock this afternoon, 
to a ewe of W. Halstead Poole, Esq. of Ferrick Hall, that had 
completely inverted each horn of the uterus, an hour or two before. 
I found it of a very dark colour, thickened, and bruised. Most of 
the placenta was away, but I removed a small portion. After great 
difficulty, I returned first one horn and then the other, and afterwards 
the vagina. I used the same means as in the cow, viz. applying 
my fist to the apex and gradually forcing it back, at the same time 
applying pressure to the sides. I found that while I was forcing 
the second horn in, the first would again protrude unless an 
assistant prevented it. She strained violently all the time I was 
