EXTRACTION OF A MAL-FORMED CALF. 
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material part, but they smelled offensively, and the parts around 
were approaching to mortification. The wound in his tail had 
not penetrated through the rectum, but that viscus had been in- 
jured, and it and the parts above it were enormously swollen with 
lymph and serum. The rectum, for at least two feet in length 
from the anus, was twelve inches in diameter. The omentum 
and peritoneum were highly inflamed, indeed I may say gorged 
with blood, but the peritoneum was worse on the sides of the ab- 
domen and diaphragm than on the intestines. The food in the 
stomach and intestines was now pultaceous, and would have 
easily passed. The pleura covering the diaphragm was highly 
inflamed, and like the peritoneum on the sides. The lungs were 
healthy. A great deal of bloody serum was found in the ab- 
domen. 
This horse’s death was caused by the disease in the rectum. 
His life, I am inclined to think, would have been saved had I 
been in daily attendance ; but, owing to the indifference of the 
owner in not having him attended to, the bowels became con- 
stipated, and the faeces, being hard, increased the irritation about 
the rectum. 
THE EXTRACTION OF A MAL-FORMED CALF, AND 
RUPTURE OF THE UTERUS. 
By the same . 
About the middle of the day on the 17th February, 1843, a 
valuable cow, six years old, exhibited approaching signs of par- 
turition. Finding, towards three p.m., that she got no forwarder, 
the owner examined her, and ascertained that the presentation was 
a breech one, and that the hind legs extended down towards the 
udder, but that he was quite unable to raise them up into the 
passage. I was soon afterwards requested to examine her. On 
introducing my arm into the uterus, when she was in a standing 
position, I found that the presentation was as he had described 
it, but that the feet did not lie so low down as they usually do 
in such a presentation. 
Extraction . — As I was not enabled by my hands alone to draw 
the legs into their proper situation, I passed a cord around the 
limb below the hock, brought the end so passed out of the body, 
and made a noose on it, and then passed the other end through 
the noose, and drew it nearly tight round the limb. I next forced 
the cord just above the claws, by which means a person was 
enabled to draw the lower part of the foot upwards, while I 
carefully guarded it to avoid injuring the uterus or vagina, during 
