604 DIFFICULT PARTURITION IN THE MARK AND COW. 
a dark sanguine hue. From its swollen state we were neces- 
sitated to nurse the animal principally upon oatmeal gruel, lin- 
seed tea, oatmeal and water, and bran mashes, made sufficiently 
sloppy so that he could suck or gather it up. 
Considering that these affections of the tongue, except when 
injured from accidental causes, as well as canker in the mouth, as 
arising from dyspepsia, and consequent heat of the stomach, we 
set to work by regulating the bowels and liver by alterative doses 
of aperients, administered from time to time, and by pursuing 
an antiphlogistic treatment. It was some time before we got the 
bowels into healthy order ; but in proportion as we did, the tongue 
took on a more healthy action. Towards the middle period we 
adopted a mixed treatment, giving his drinks in ale, and during 
the latter portion of the period we gave tonics containing the 
mineral salts. 
Locally, we fomented the under part of the jaw along the 
tongue, and frequently washed the mouth out with tepid water, 
keeping it as clean as possible. The affected portion was anointed 
with mild digestive oils : ultimately we rubbed the iodine oint- 
ment well in under the throttle. By this mode of treatment the 
colt gradually recovered his general health. The very indurated 
state of the tongue slowly decreased ; the ulcers became healed 
up, and the tip of the tongue was saved ; but at one time we 
expected it to slough off to some extent. 
CASES OF DIFFICULT PARTURITION IN THE 
MARE AND COW. 
By Mr. James Horsburgh, V.S,, Dalkeith. 
Sir, — In looking over the pages of this month’s Journal, I find 
a case of placental presentation recorded by Mr. J. D. Harrison ; 
and as I had a somewhat similar one lately, I send you an account 
of it, though at the same time I consider it quite distinct from 
and unconnected with the placenta, and have no doubt that, if 
Mr. H. had had the good fortune to have been called in time, he 
would have found the same in his case. 
On the 9th of May last, I was sent for to attend a mare be- 
longing to Mr. D. Scott, of Ormiston. She had begun foaling 
the day before, and, as they thought, inversion of the uterus 
was taking place. I found her very weak from the long-continued 
exertion to expel the foal, and a substance in the vaginal passage, 
of a yellow colour and about the size of an ordinary person’s head. 
This projected considerably beyond the vulva every time the pains 
