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ON INVERSION OF THE UTERUS IN COWS. 
Mr. WHEATLEY says, that he has been called to cases in which 
the uterus of cows, after calving, has been completely inverted. 
With difficulty he returned them, and they did well, with one 
exception only. He asks whether I know an instance of the kind, 
and the cow continuing to breed and to do well. 
There are numerous cases on record, in which the inverted 
uterus has been returned, and the cow has apparently done well ; 
but the farmer, thinking it probable that she would abort during 
her next pregnancy, or that inversion of the womb would again 
occur, has fattened and killed her. There are several cases in 
which the secretion of milk did not appear to be in the least de- 
gree diminished after she had quite recovered from the prolapsus. 
And there are others, but not so numerous, in which the cow be- 
came again pregnant, and safely produced, and nursed her little 
one. I would refer Mr. Wheatley particularly to the 1st volume 
of The Veterinarian, p. 378, and the 9th volume, p. 591. If I 
much wished to retain the breed of a cow in whom successful re- 
placement of the uterus had been effected, I should not hesitate to 
keep her, and let her again become pregnant; but if I placed no 
particular value upon her, I should dry up her milk at the proper 
period, and fatten her for the butcher. 
Y. 
THE VETERINARIAN, JULY l, 1839. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — C icero. 
We can at length announce to our readers — and we do it with a 
degree of exultation in which they will fully participate — that the 
work of reformation has commenced in the southern veterinary 
school. 
During a considerable proportion of the season now drawing to 
a close, both the Professors have been seriously indisposed, and 
totally unable to discharge the duties of their respective situa- 
tions ; and it cannot now be said that the health of either of them 
is perfectly re-established. Week after week passed away, and 
