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CASE OF ENTERITIS IN A DOG, 
admitting a finger. These symptoms will continue from twelve to 
twenty-four hours, then all will disappear, and the cow go on all 
right for eight days or a fortnight: true labour will then commence, 
the sphincter will now give way, and, in general, delivery will fol¬ 
low in as natural a manner as if nothing wrong had previously 
occurred. It most commonly alfects young cows or mares in their 
first gestation; but I have had an instance or two in aged ones. 
There is no danger to be apprehended if she is let alone, and al¬ 
lowed to go on to her proper time: except at the time of parturition, 
and for about twenty-fours after, they are much disposed to eject 
the uterus, therefore they require more attention. 
I have known and seen some very great blunders committed in 
these cases by persons who really did not understand them, and who, 
considering the animal was in the act of calving, and that she must 
die if not delivered, and the state of the passages preventing that 
object, under these ideas they have divided the sphincter by inci¬ 
sion, which allowed delivery to be easily effected ; but these cases 
have always terminated fatally, at least as far as I have witnessed 
or known them. 
All I do in these cases is, to persuade the owner (sometimes with 
great difficulty) not to allow any one to meddle with her, but to 
wait patiently eight days or a fortnight; and the result has always 
been quite satisfactory. Sometimes I have found it necessary to 
administer 3iv of opium, to lull the excited state of the parts, 
and to apply trusses to prevent the cow injuring the uterus, &c., by 
violent efforts to expel the foetus. I take the trusses off when she 
becomes tranquil and settled, and when her true time arrives for de¬ 
livery. After she has been delivered, I immediately apply the trusses 
again, to prevent the protrusion of the womb, which is a common 
sequela, if not prevented. 
CASE OF ENTERITIS IN A DOG, WITH A RUPTURE 
OF THE COLON. 
By Mr. John Rolfe, Veterinary Student. 
Perhaps the following case may possess sufficient interest to 
render it acceptable to some of the many readers of your valuable 
periodical:— 
On Sunday morning, March 15th, 1840, Mr. M-s, of Chelsea, 
requested me to attend a dog of his that was ill. He thought he 
had not been well for the last four or five days. He was a large 
dog, of the bull breed, and three years old. 
Symptoms .—I had not long arrived ere I recognised that it was 
a case of enteritis. He had a dreadful shivering fit, to which suc¬ 
ceeded heat of the skin, and restlessness. The muzzle was dry 
