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straining efforts. A large dose of narcotic medicine and oil was 
given, and by the aid of bandages so secured to the body as to 
pass tightly over and on each side of the organs of generation, the 
animal was effectually prevented from throwing down the uterus. 
Considerable mitigation of the pains followed in the course of an 
hour, and during the night they almost disappeared. Next day 
the removal of the placenta was again attempted, and by passing 
the hand and arm with some degree of force several times round 
its external surfaces of attachment, at the same time applying a 
drawing force to that part of it seen externally, it was perfectly 
removed. So far as the uterus itself was concerned no unfavour- 
able consequences resulted, but in a few days the cow was attacked 
with acute mammitis, attended by considerable sympathetic fever. 
Although every attention was paid to this, it proved an obstinate 
case, and at the present time (May 15th), after having suppurated 
extensively, it has not yet recovered. 
One of the cases of death from wounds occurred in a well-bred 
gray mare, the property of a job and post-master in town, who 
had lent her out on the 4th April to a gentleman who was going 
into the country for the day. Before he had got out of town, the 
shaft of a vehicle which was across his path came in violent con- 
tact with the side of the mare, entered the abdomen, and passed 
obliquely forward in the direction of and wounding the diaphragm. 
The mare died in the course of the afternoon. 
The other case of death under this head was also one arising 
from a wound in the abdomen. A horse coming down the decli- 
vity of a little mound fell in a heavily loaded cart in which he 
was working. He struggled violently when down, and in doing 
so, the right iliac region came upon one of the hooks on the shaft, 
which inflicted a wound through the skin and abdominal muscles, 
so that a knot of intestine protruded. After getting him up, he 
was brought here. It was requisite to cast him, in order to return 
the intestine, and to secure the external wound ; in doing so, from 
the struggles the animal made, the wound into the abdomen became 
enlarged, and the intestines were forced out in larger quantity. 
They were returned, the wound secured with stitches, and a broad 
roller was passed tightly round the body. Active peritoneal in- 
flammation, however, taking place, it was found necessary to destroy 
the horse. 
The case of disease of the heart, which terminated fatally, 
occurred in a horse belonging to a railway carrier. He was brought 
here on the 20th April. On the morning of this day he had been 
working in the waggon, where he was first observed to be unwell. 
He had stopped suddenly several times when working on the road, 
and appeared in danger of falling. There was little appearance of 
fever, and he had fed well on the morning alluded to. The pulse 
