INVERSION OF THE BLADDER. 
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superior part as far as the meatus urinarius, and to so great a 
degree, that the vulva completely closed, and there remained 
externally no trace of the mischief that had been done ; except 
that the urine, running incessantly through the ureters, collected 
in small quantities in the vulva, and was often ejected, and ran 
down the thiohs and excoriated them more and more. 
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At this period I again saw M. Diquet. I told him what had 
occurred since our last interview, and we determined to make a 
kind of gutter of tin, mounted on wire, and fixed to the inferior 
commissure of the lips of the vulva by means of the wire, re- 
tained by two cross pieces, as if it had been buckled, and, the 
mare being docked, the tail did not derange the mechanism of the 
gutter. By these means the urine was thrown beyond the thighs 
and hocks, and the state of irritation in which these parts had 
been was allayed by the application of a few emollients. Six 
weeks after the accident the mare was again put to work. 
This history is, perhaps, more curious than useful, on account 
of the rareness of its occurrence. It proves, however, that we 
should never despair, let the case be of the severest character, or 
the life of the animal apparently compromised. One thing is of 
the greatest importance, —to know when and how the bladder 
can be reversed. 
The proprietor perceived it even before the birth of the colt; 
but he was ignorant how long the mare had been suffering before 
his arrived. The long and violent efforts to which she had aban- 
doned herself while the colt had its fore-legs against the rectum — 
might not these have been the cause of the inversion ? This 
appears to me probable, since the hind-legs had not yet been 
brought forward. 
Mem . de la Soc. Vet. da Calvados 1, 1830. 
ROYAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE. 
A REPORT OF THE MEETING FOR THE RECEPTION AND CONSIDER- 
ATION OF MEMOIRS AND OBSERVATIONS ON PRACTICAL 
VETERINARY MEDICINE. 
Commissioners, MM. Girard, Huzard, and Yvart; 
M. Barth fe lem y, Reporter. 
[Continued from page 41 7.] 
M. Drouard, veterinary surgeon at Montbard (Cote d’Or), 
who received a gold medal from this Society in 1837, addressed 
a collection of thirteen cases, almost all of which are very inte- 
resting. 
The two first relate to sheep-pox. In one of them M. Drou- 
