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PARALYSIS IN A COW. 
rectum I found scarcely any faeces in it, and from the 
tympanitis being so great I was unable to throw up an 
enema. Such was the violence of the attack that the mare 
died very soon afterwards. 
On opening her I found the immediate cause of death to 
be a rupture, about 18 inches in length, along the lower 
part of the diaphragm. It was in an horizontal direction, 
and had not bled much ; the edges of the rupture being 
lacerated a great deal. 
INVERSION OF THE BLADDER. 
By the Same. 
The following case is similar to that recorded in the Veteri- 
narian for the last month. Rather more than twelve months 
since, a four-year-old cart-mare was brought to me with the 
bladder partially inverted, a portion of it, as large as an 
orange, protruding from the labia. I gradually returned it, 
and applied a truss similar to that used for cows in inversion 
of the uterus, following this up by the administration of seda- 
tive medicines. 
On the following morning I found that the truss had 
slipped on one side, and the bladder was inverted as much as 
before. 
I again carefully returned it, and, instead of depending on 
the truss, applied three or four metallic sutures to the labia, 
taking care to obtain a deep hold with them. This proved 
effectual. If I remember right, there was a discharge of 
coffee-coloured fluid from the vagina for some days after- 
wards, but the mare ultimately did well. She was not in 
foal, and I could not account in any way for the bladder thus 
becoming inverted. 
PARALYSIS IN A COW.— FRACTURE OF THE OS 
INNOMINATA. — A FIBRO-CELLULAR TUMOUR 
ATTACHED TO ONE OF THE OVARIES. 
By T. Fletcher, M.R.C.V.S., Lincoln. 
The history of this case, connected with the morbid parts 
forwarded, is as follows s — 
