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could not be seen, without separating the lips of the 
latter. 
The mare was only three years old this spring, she had 
foaled a dead foal in the field, a fortnight before her time, 
without assistance. Will you kindly say whether this is a 
case that you have before heard of, as I have never met with 
such an one. Inverted uterus is, of course, common, but 
inverted bladder I imagine not. 
[The bladder was found to be completely inverted, and 
about one half of the viscus protruded from between the 
labia pudendi. 
Its coats were much thickened ; to perhaps three or four 
times their natural state. About one half the mucous 
coat at the fundus had, from exposure, &c., taken on an 
altered condition, by which it was made to differ in appear- 
ance but very little from ordinary cuticular membrane. 
We do not think that a successful reduction of the inverted 
bladder could have been made, even if mechanical means had 
been adopted to retain it in its original or normal position 
afterwards. Such cases are by no means common.] 
FATAL CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM THE 
USE OF THE SULPHURET OF ARSENICUM IN 
A CASE OF POLL-EVIL. 
By W. Cox, Sen., M.R.C.V.S., Ashbourne. 
On the 13th of February, Mr. Hodkinson, of Cubley, six 
miles from this place, sent for me to see a horse, but being 
out, my son attended, who, from the symptoms then present, 
gave the owner little hope of the animal's recovery. In a 
very short time I was sent for again, when I found the horse in 
a dying condition ; in fact, he died before I left the place. On 
making an inquiry, I ascertained that he had been “ dressed” 
for poll-evil by a pretender about five days before. I un- 
hesitatingly gave it as my opinion that the dressing was the 
cause of death, which a post-mortem examination proved to 
be correct. This ignorant personas mode of treatment is, first 
to thrust a red-hot iron into the part affected. The iron 
used by him is about seven inches long, and nearly an inch 
in diameter. He then passes a substance down to the 
bottom of the wound he has made with the same iron, which 
substance I believe to be yellow arsenic. It soon causes a 
