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than this ; although morbid concretions are not rare, but, on the 
contrary, are frequently met with in the organism of the domesti- 
cated animal. We have published accounts of their being found 
in the stomach, intestines, bladder, ureters, kidneys, veins, biliary, 
thoracic, and salivary ducts ; yet I am not aware of any record — 
prior to this — being in existence, shewing them to have been found 
in the mammary gland or its ducts. 
If this be correct, I hope I shall be pardoned for the length of 
this contribution, and for the space it has necessarily occupied in 
the pages of your invaluable Journal, which has been for so many 
years the medium of disseminating information amongst the mem- 
bers of the veterinary profession. 
INVERSION OF THE UTERUS. 
By W. COOPER, M.R.C.V.S., Berkhampstead. 
A GREAT deal has been written on inversion of the uterus, and 
much information has thereby been imparted ; so much indeed, 
that, after the able manner the subject has been treated, I feel a 
degree of diffidence in offering any further remarks. However, if 
the following hint prove hereafter of any service to the members 
of the profession, I shall feel gratified at having done so. I will, 
therefore, without further preface, beg to draw their attention to a 
simple yet very effective instrument, with which I have been able 
to surmount many of the difficulties attending the reduction of these 
truly formidable kind of hernise. The common, and I believe 
hitherto only method of proceeding, has been to introduce the arm, 
in order to force in the inverted viscus, an object avowedly most 
difficult, and frequently impossible to be accomplished, as the nu- 
merous recorded cases testify. Now, as a substitute for the arm, 
I have employed a rod of iron (the same as that upon which my 
different obstetric instruments are screwed) to which is secured a 
pear-shaped wooden bulb, as seen in the following sketch. 
Extreme length, 2 feet 8 inches : circumference of bulb around largest part, 11| inches. 
Armed with this simple contrivance, I proceed, after the neces- 
sary preliminaries, to re-invert the viscus by applying the bulb, 
as I was wont to put my closed hand, to the fundus of the womb. 
This I gradually raise and cautiously introduce within the vagina, 
