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first days, with gruel ; and he could begin on the eighth day to eat 
a little soup, and bread, and roots reduced to a pulp, the bandage 
being loosened for this purpose. On the following day his master 
withdrew him from our hospital. We afterwards heard that he 
was able to eat hay on the twenty-fourth day. 
A female goat was our third patient. She had a transversal 
and clean fracture of the two branches of the lower jaw, about an 
inch behind the symphysis. The mouth was somewhat open, and 
the incisor teeth of the two jaws separated a full inch from each 
other. The extremity of the fractured bone was moveable. There 
was neither wound nor tumefaction of the soft parts. The acci- 
dent had happened six days before she was brought to us, and 
during that time she had very much fallen away, on account of 
her being deprived of food, and also on account of a diarrhoea 
under which she had laboured some days before. 
As with the ass, we employed the nose-band, and the linen 
bandage, in order to keep the fractured parts in apposition with 
each other. The woman to whom she belonged, took her away 
on the sixth day, and afterwards informed us that the cure was 
complete before the twentieth day. 
The protrusion and inversion of the rectum is an accident which 
presents itself occasionally in our practice, and the treatment of 
which does not appear to be established on any scientific basis. 
It is particularly frequent in young dogs labouring under “ Dis- 
temper,” especially when the gastro-intestinal membrane is the 
part principally affected, under the form of diarrhoea or dysentery. 
This accident is not a primary or essential disease ; but it is the 
result of, and complicated with another malady : nevertheless it 
demands a peculiar and appropriate treatment. 
Some veterinarians seem to consider it as a primitive disease, 
and, too inattentive to the morbid condition of other parts, or of 
the animal generally, by which it was preceded, or which it accom- 
panies, advise to amputate the rectum, towards its anal termina- 
tion ; and they adduce the difficulty of returning the intestine, and 
retaining it in its natural situation, as a proof of the necessity of 
this operation. 
But this mode of treating protrusion and inversion of the rectum 
appears to us to be far too generally had recourse to, and with too 
little regard to that which preceded or had followed the escape of 
this intestine, and the actual state of the intestine itself. As often 
as a protrusion of the rectum may be coincident with a state of 
acute gastro-intestinal inflammation, or of intestinal inflammation 
alone, and accompanied by dysentery or diarrhoea, we should endea- 
vour to combat the inflammation itself, and the operation is contra- 
indicated. When it shall have resisted every emollient, anodyne, 
