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SUCCESSFUL REMOVAL OF A CONSIDERABLE 
PORTION OF INTESTINE FROM AN OX. 
Dr. CHESELDEN relates a singula,r case of this, with which 
all our veterinaiy readers may not be acquainted:— 
An ox was suifering under constipation of the bowels. Tho¬ 
mas Brayer, a doctor for cattle, opened the ox in the flank, and 
took out great pail of his bowels ; upon searching which, he 
found there was a perfect stoppage in the guts, and the gut was, 
about the stoppage, putrefied for three-quarters of a yard : 
whereupon he cut ofl* so much of the gut as was putrefied, and 
took it quite away, and then drew the ends of the guts which 
remained sound, after what was cut off, together upon a hollow 
keck, which was about three or four inches, long:, and sewed the 
said ends of the gnits together upon the said keck, leaving the 
keck within the guts, and then sewed up the hole cut in the 
hide upon the flank of the said ox. ' Within the space of one 
hour after this operation was perfonned, the ox dunged, and the 
piece of the keck which the said ends of the gut were sewn 
upon came away from the ox with the dung ; whereupon the ox 
recovered, and lived to do the owmer service several years/' 
DURATION OF UTERO-GESTATION AND OF IN¬ 
CUBATION, IN SEVERAL QUADRUPEDS AND 
DOMESTIC BIRDS. 
Extracted from a Memoir read to the Academie Roy ale des 
Sciences at Paris^ by M , Tessier. 
IN 1131 cowSy the shortest period of gestation was 240 days, 
and the longest 321 days; difference, 81 days; and, counting 
from 9 months, 51 days. 
In 582 mares, which admitted the horse only once, there 
was, from the shortest gestation (or 287 days) to, the longest 
(419), 132 days; and, reckoning from the 330th day, or eleven 
months, 89 days. 
In 312 mares, which had leaped several times (in dating from 
the last), from the shortest gestation (that is 290 days) to 377, 
the longest, 87 days ; and from the 330th, or eleventh month, 
47 days of prolongation. 
Of two female asses, one carried 380 days, or tw^elve months 
and twenty days; the other 391 days, or thirteen months and 
one day. 
