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around the body, and so extracted the foetus. As it was, when 
we pulled at the legs, the points of the stifle would be pressed 
and abutting against the sides of the pelvis in a square direction 
from the body. Some of those who were present afterwards said 
that had the calf been turned and extracted in its natural position 
it would have come away; but in answer to this, I may state that 
I was never enabled to feel the head or fore legs, consequently 
this was out of the question. Even had I been able to have got 
it in this position, I have no doubt that the stifles would have pro- 
jected against the pelvis. 
Lookers-on, at these times, are very ready to make their obser- 
vations, and to give their opinions, saying “ we should do this, 
and do the other, cut here and cut there but put their skill to 
the proof, and they are very soon silenced. 
This cow went on very well until about the middle of the night, 
when she became very ill. Early on the following morning I 
was called to see her, when, finding that her uterus was ruptured, 
I wished her to be destroyed. She was, however, left alone all 
day without any thing being done, and at night she was killed. 
The neck of the uterus was found ruptured to a great extent. 
CONSULTATIONS. 
No. XXVIIL 
On the Warranty of a Cow. 
I take the liberty to address you these few lines, soliciting 
your opinion on a case in which I am somewhat concerned, and 
which is at present pending before the sheriff. 
In March last I was called to see a cow that had been 
bought two days previously. I found her with the vagina in- 
verted and protruding as large as a man’s head, and with violent 
uterine pains. I returned it into its proper place, after having 
carefully cleansed it. I bled the cow, and gave opiates, with oily 
laxatives, and cooling lotions to be applied to the external parts 
frequently, and raised her hind quarters. On the next day I 
found the symptoms a little abated. I repeated the medicine for 
several successive days with little advantage. 
I suspected that there had been something wrong previously, 
owing to the apparent obstinacy of the case ; and, on making 
inquiry, found that she had been affected with it for many months, 
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