A CASE OF SYINIPTOMATIC PHllENITIS. 
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Another case is quoted from M. Pradal. A cow, approaching 
the period of gestation, from time to time made those efforts which 
accompany parturition. The 15th day passed, and these efforts 
increased in violence. There ran from the vulva a great quantity 
of glairy fluid. On separating the lips of the vagina as the cow 
lay on the ground, a portion of the uterus, as large as a man’s head, 
could be perceived in the passage, pressing against the inside of the 
lips of the vulva. The teats were hard, distended, and full of milk. 
The frequent movements of the foetus could be perceived in the right 
flank. The cow being forcibly lifted up, and her four limbs sup¬ 
ported by four men, the projecting portion of the uterus immedi¬ 
ately returned into the abdomen. On the hand being introduced 
into the vagina, the cause of the delay of her delivery was suffi¬ 
ciently evident. The neck of the uterus was tumefied, hard, and of 
almost a cartilaginous consistence, and was permeated at its centre 
by a canal so small and firmly contracted that it was impossible to 
pass a finger through it. She was suffered again to lie down, and 
the protruding portion of the uterus could immediately be seen. 
The impossibility of extracting the foetus by the natural passage 
being sufficiently evident, M. Pradal proposed to the proprietor 
the abstraction of the foetus through the right flank. This was 
immediately agreed to. The operation was performed in the man¬ 
ner already described, and the foetus readily withdrawn. It was 
laid on some straw, and dried by means of warm cloths, and then 
taken to a nurse-cow. She licked it, and permitted it to suck as 
readily as if it were her own offspring. 
The cow was then destroyed by a butcher. This was on every 
account a pity. Dissection of the uterus exhibited a scirrhus de¬ 
generacy of the neck of that organ, and so dense that it offered as 
much resistance to the scalpel as the cartilages of the larynx would 
have done. 
[We repeat, that this operation must have been performed by some 
of our adventurous brethren, yet no record of it appears in any 
of the pages of our Journal. It is an interesting and important 
subject. Will some of our practitioners on cattle tell us what 
they have seen or done 1—Y.] 
A CASE OF SYMPTOMATIC PPIRENITIS. 
By the same. 
T AM now attending a horse for what Mr. Blaine terms sympto¬ 
matic phrenitis. He was attacked by pneumonia, and the case 
was an alarming one, but by careful treatment I fortunately suc¬ 
ceeded in the cure, so lar as the lungs wort; concerned. No sooner. 
