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occasion was reduced, and a strong blister subsequently 
applied, which effected a cure. The lameness had existed 
occasionally from the 9th of September to the 6th of 
October. 
Giornale di Medicina Veterinaria. Of the Royal Veterinary 
School at Turin. 
PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. 
The first article in this, the April number, is from Signor 
Antonio Bassetto, Veterinario a Barbania. It is respecting 
an apparatus for confining the uterus after having effected its 
reduction in cases of prolapsus. It consists of four leather 
straps, two of which are broader at their extremities than in 
the middle. Their length is about 24 centimetres,* breadth 
about 10. At the end of each of the two principal ones there 
are two holes. The two others, which form a sort of noose, 
are 17 centimetres in length and 4 in breadth, throughout 
the whole of their extent. These four pieces of leather are 
sewn together in a manner so as that the two principal ones 
can confine, one the upper part of the opening of the vulva, 
and the other the lower; while the two lesser ones on each 
side of the labia leave an opening in the middle sufficient for 
the purpose of nature. The lateral straps are fastened on 
each side by means of ropes passed through the holes to a 
surcingle, and then are tied together over the root of 
the tail. 
The author then enters at great length upon the defective- 
ness of the usual means employed; the difficulties of keeping 
the uterus in its place after reduction, and accompanies his 
remarks with a woodcut of his apparatus and its applicability 
to the parts. 
CASE OE HYSTEROTOMIA. 
By Signor Sacchero, Veterinario a Racconigi. 
The subject of this operation was a four-year-old cow. 
For three days she had been labouring under parturient 
* A centimetre is rattier more than thirty-nine hundredths of an inch, 
English measure. 
