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foundation of the requisite thickness. This will give the pad 
strength , and will materially increase its durability. And this 
possibly might, from the known elasticity of gutta percha, render 
it consistent and springy enough, when a vacuity for the frog has 
been cut out, to remain in the foot without fastening. 
Extracts from Foreign Journals. 
Compte-Rendu of the Central Society of Veterinary 
Medicine of France for 1847 . 
We find nothing in the “ Report” to interest us, but in the 
cases annexed to it there are some observations which may be 
worthy notice. We subjoin the best of them. 
1 . — Some curious Observations on Division of the Neck of the 
Uterus in difficult and impossible Parturition. 
[Addressed to the Society by M. Bonnet, V.S., Yssel, Correze.] 
M. Bonnet would discard altogether from veterinary surgery 
both the Caesarean operation and embryotomy, and introduce as a 
substitute for them division of the neck of the uterus, whereby are 
preserved both the mother and the progeny. In support of this 
suggestion, M. Bonnet asserts, that in four cows, in which partu- 
rition was rendered impossible in consequence of the super-deve- 
lopment of the foetuses and paralysis of the hind quarters, com- 
bined, in three of them with inversion of the vagina, and in the 
fourth with scirrhous induration of the neck of the womb, the 
former (three) were perfectly recovered, save that one of them 
remained paralytic; the last case succumbed, owing, according to 
M. Bonnet, to an infection referrible to the death and decomposition 
of the foetus within the womb. 
Although there is nothing new in the operation of division of the 
neck of the uterus, these observations suffer no diminution of im- 
portance from that circumstance ; seeing that they are calculated to 
instigate veterinary practitioners in breeding countries to the em- 
ployment of such an operation in the generality of cases, in pre- 
ference to embryotomy. 
