378 INVERSION AND RUPTURE OF THE WOMB. 
sibly with the caloric it has received. This, however, is very 
doubtful. The rational explanation of the process is, that through 
the medium of the fat lining of the hog’s skin we are enabled to 
apply to the tumour a very high degree of heat, three times greater 
than that of boiling water, although not half so much as that of 
red-hot iron, and sufficient to stimulate the neighbouring absorbents 
to energetic action, without destroying the cutis to which the hair 
is attached. 
M. Gelle terms this operation, and not inappropriately,Me 
diate Cauterization.” 
INVERSION AND RUPTURE OF THE WOMB OF A 
COW SUCCESSFULLY TREATED. 
Hy M. Saussol, Veterinary Surgeon to the \Sth Chasseurs. 
A COW, four years old, begun, half an hour after calving, to 
tremble, look round at her belly, low continually, butt with her 
horns, lie down and rise up again immediately, and make violent 
efforts apparently to urine. -The womb was suddenly inverted, 
and a rent, a foot in length, was found in the middle of its infe¬ 
rior part. The cow becoming more furious, one person mounted 
on her back to keep her down, another drew her tongue from her 
mouth, and a third pricked her with a goad as often as she at¬ 
tempted to struggle. Two other assistants held up the enormous 
mass of the protruded uterus, while M. S. attempted the reduc¬ 
tion, which he accomplished in less than ten minutes. He then 
kept his arm in the vagina, while an assistant passed a girth 
round the animal’s body. A long roller was attached to this girth 
under the belly; it was passed between the fore legs, and being 
slit at the point of the chest, one part was brought up on each 
side of the neck, and fastened to the girth above. Another roller 
was then fixed to the girth underneath, brought along the belly, 
between the hind legs, and over the vulva and anus, and there, 
being slit, a division passed on either side of the tail, was carried 
along the back, and fastened to the girth above. The cow was 
then suffered to lie down, and a considerable quantity of hay was 
put under her hind extremities, somewhat to elevate them. She 
was then bled, and cooling drinks were administered. 
. Her pains continued during the night, with the same violent 
efforts, but the bandage afforded an effectual support, and the 
protrusion did not return. 
• Towards the morning she was easy. The bandage was re- 
