FARTHER REMARKS ON BREECH PRESENTATION IN COWS. 549 
district, where I have, occasionally, seen all sorts of cases, for 
nearly twenty years. I have never had occasion to turn a cow 
on her back. I will never resort to that practice until all other 
means fail. When I find a difficult case, where there is likely to 
be danger to tha cow, I never hesitate one moment between de- 
stroying the calf and the hazard of destroying the mother ; and, 
in most cases, I would have the calf extracted, either dead or 
alive — either whole or in parts — before the cow could be cast, 
turned on her back, and her feet secured; and after all this trouble, 
and a great many more, perhaps, fruitless efforts to extract the 
calf, the knife has to be resorted to, when both mother and pro- 
geny are likely to be sacrificed. I never lost a case in which 
amputation of either fore or hind extremities was performed ; and 
as it is often, after all the means within the power of the owner 
have been exhausted, that we are sent for, I would recommend to 
all practitioners never to lose time in unavailing efforts to extract 
a calf entire, to the risk of the cow’s life, when he can, by the 
knowledge he possesses of the parts, the prompt and proper use 
of the knife, and by the additional tact that practice has given 
him, amputate any and every part of the calf, even in the uterus. 
I am happy that Mr. Barlow has given me an opportunity thus 
to explain. I do not mean to find fault, though I may differ in 
opinion with him. If any thing can be brought out in contro- 
versy beneficial to the profession, I am happy to see it; but I 
would discard all unnecessary bickerings, such as we have lately 
seen : and hope such Billingsgate, or Cowgate, or whatever you 
may please to call such trash, will never again disgrace the pages 
of The Veterinarian. 
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR. MAYHEW 
AND MR. BARLOW, CONCLUDED; 
In a Letter from the former Gentleman to the Editors. 
Gentlemen, 
As you express a wish upon the subject, I will not attempt to 
reply to Mr. Barlow’s last letter, but will bow in silence to that 
gentleman’s superior acquaintance with Billingsgate, and endea- 
vour to get out of the way of the red herrings with which he 
appears to have become most strangely infatuated. 
On my own part, however, I owe to your readers some apology 
for having been most unwillingly forced to engage in a dispute 
which, I am sorry to say, has intruded upon your space to the 
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