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INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN A COW. 
There was not the least appearance of that sanguineous extravasa- 
tion which we generally find in most cases of enteritis. Indeed, 
I do not recollect ever meeting with a case of similar oedematous 
extravasation of the bowels, although I have opened hundreds of 
cases of enteritis. I am inclined to believe that this attack was 
brought on from the conjoint effects of exposure to the cold winds 
while standing in the gig, and from being turned out into young 
grass in a flooded meadow, and lying out at nights too soon in the 
season. 
The owner informed me he had given, in the course of the pre- 
vious week, about §iv of potas. nit. combined with sulphur, and 
likewise some before. This, probably, might have been a pre- 
disposing or exciting cause of the disease. 
During the time I attended her I had not the least idea she was 
going to die so soon, as her symptoms did not indicate any thing 
serious, or betoken violent disease going on in the bowels ; yet 
the quick small pulse, which I attributed to the purging, led me to 
believe that all was not right. If I could have imagined there 
had been such copious effusion taking place, I certainly should have 
been more active in my treatment ; but I had not the least notion 
of it, as there were not, until a few hours previous to her death, 
any symptoms of pain. 
Have you or your readers met with similar cases 1* 
INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN A COW. 
By the same. 
April 18 thy 1846. — About 5 a.m., a cow, the property of Mr. 
Deakin, of the Hollyhurst, was discovered to have calved some- 
time in the night, with her uterus completely inverted. 
I was immediately sent for. In about an hour after I was in 
attendance. The uterus was considerably swollen, and was turn- 
ing black. I could not detect any injury on it. The placenta was 
entirely separated from it. 
Method of reduction . — As she was lying down, and we could 
not get her to stand, we placed several battens of straw under her 
hinder parts, to raise her up a little. I now opposed my fist against 
the extreme end of the uterus, which appeared thinner than any 
other part, and resembled one of its horns. I tried to re-invert it 
into its natural place. After a good deal of trouble I succeeded in 
* Under the head of “ post-mortem appearances,” p. 311, vol. ii, of Mr. 
Percivall's Hippopathology, Mr. Cartwright will find mention made of ana- 
logous morbid changes. — Edit. 
