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the neck of the bladder (that part which was anterior to the part 
included in the ligature) was four or five times thicker than in a 
state of health, being in a high state of sphacelus ; the lungs were 
slightly congested ; the other viscera healthy. 
Remarks . — From the termination of this case I am led to be- 
lieve that inversion of the bladder is difficult in its treatment and 
dangerous in its result ; but the disadvantage under which I 
laboured in this case was, in not being called in when the mis- 
chief was first perceived, finding the viscus in that engorged state 
which would result from the inversion as would preclude all chance 
of its being returned or re-inverted. If the inversion could nof be 
overcome, then you must remove it, and ligatures seem generally 
to have been chosen; yet I should not employ them again, but 
amputate at once with the knife ; for I am persuaded that the mis- 
chief which occurs is by the immense weight which the inverted 
bladder attains, and which has to be held up by the vagina, thus 
producing more inflammation ; for if the tumour was removed by 
the knife, you would not have that amount of inflammation, but 
would have a much better chance of curing your patient. I think 
there is a case recorded by a French practitioner in The VETE- 
RINARIAN which was successfully treated by ligatures, and the 
trickling of the urine being prevented from running down the legs 
by the use, of an instrument fixed in the vagina, which carried 
the water beyond the point where it would have trickled down the 
legs, and caused excoriation. 
July 10th, 1847. 
WOUND IN A MARE— PARTURITION IN A 
DONKEY. 
By Mr. J. YoUNGHUSBAND, Grey stoke. 
To the Editor of “ The Veterinarian.” 
Respected Sir, — Should the following cases merit a corner in 
your valuable Journal, they are quite at your service. Let me 
only first observe, it has given me the greatest pleasure, mingled 
with regret for his loss, to peruse the review of the late Mr. 
Youatt’s work on the Pig ; a work which was much wanted, as, in 
every thing I have read, the subject has been very poorly treated 
of, although an animal so valuable both to the great and small 
farmer, and, in reality, to all classes of the community. It appears 
to me that his disorders are, by most persons, ill-understood and 
sadly neglected, the veterinarian seldom having an opportunity, 
