CASES CONNECTED WITH PARTURITION. 
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Would it not be better in such cases as this to tie a cord, it 
possible, round the neck of the calf instead of the jaw, so that 
the whole head would be brought along, which would avoid the 
danger of breaking the jaw, which, in some instances, is the death 
of the calf, though many live after the jaw being seriously injured 
or broken ? By pulling at the lower jaw only, the upper one and 
the head are liable to be pressed against, the upper part of the 
vagina, and so obstruct a little the extraction. I think it advis- 
able in tying the cord on the lower jaw to pass it on the skin, as it 
enables us to pull with greater strength. Sometimes in the foal 
there are no front teeth, and the jaw is so rounded off, that a 
cord will not stick on it. 
RUPTURED UTERUS AND CiECUM IN A COW. 
On the 17th of February 1842, about the middle of the day, 
an aged cow was calving, and the feet were seen. She was left 
alone until about six o’clock of the same day, when a person ex- 
amined her, and found the calf’s head doubled back. He put 
it right, and the calf was soon taken away. Towards eight or 
nine o’clock at night the cow was thought not to be well, but it 
was agreed that she should be left alone until morning. On the 
next morning, about six o’clock, 1 was called to see her. 
I found her standing up, looking sadly, and her pulse indis- 
tinct ; and, on introducing my hand into the uterus, I found that 
it was ruptured, and informed the owner that she would die. 
In an hour or two afterwards she was found to be sinking, and, 
as she was in good condition, she was killed and dressed. 
Examination . — About the neck of the uterus there was a rup- 
ture sufficiently large to admit of the passage of one’s head. 
On the abdominal viscera some of the contents of the bowels 
were thinly spread, and, on ascertaining whence it came from, we 
found there was an opening at the very end of the caecum, and 
which we supposed had been burst by the pressure of the calf, it 
being probably in a state of distention at the time. It did not 
appear inflamed, but there was some coagulated blood about the 
rupture. The rupture of the uterus, I have very little doubt, was 
produced by the person who righted the head, as he was a rash, 
athletic man. 
I recollect being called in to a cow where the head, fore legs, 
and body had been removed, and the hind extremities were in- 
tended to be extracted by the application of greater foree, but 
on introducing the arm no part of them could be found. I was 
then sent for, and soon discovered that the uterus was ruptured 
to a very great extent, admitting thereby the remaining part of 
the calf to recede from out of our reach, and the uterus being 
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