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ABSTRACTION OF OMENTUM. 
that, if the little animal should be foaled alive, the neck would 
be crooked. 
In about half an hour assistance arrived. One man helped 
me to push back the sternum and fore legs of the foal into 
the belly of the mother, whilst other two men pulled the hind 
legs and quarters into the pelvis. The mare at this time gave a 
desperate plunge, accompanied by a dreadful groan. The foal 
came easily away after a very gentle pulling by the assistants, 
but the uterus of the mare immediately ceased to act. A con¬ 
siderable alteration was immediately observed in her, the muscles 
of the belly and flank laboured hard to keep up respiration, the 
pulse sunk every minute, and she died in half an hour. 
On opening her belly, the diaphragm was found to be rup¬ 
tured almost from side to side across the fibres. A large quan¬ 
tity of blood was both in the chest and belly. The muscles of 
the parietes of the belly were also partially ruptured, and much 
blood had insinuated itself between the layers of muscle. The 
womb was perfectly sound and free from injury. 
ABSTRACTION OF A PORTION OF OMENTUM 
FROM A COW. 
jBj/ the same. 
A cow having got a push from another upon the side of the 
belly, so as to divide the muscles but not the skin, suppuration 
commenced some time afterwards, and the integument gave 
way. I received orders to attend the animal, as ‘‘ her puddings,"’ 
they said, “ were coming out.” I examined the protruded portion, 
which really seemed like intestine, and being dead, and decom¬ 
posed, I pulled it away. It was a portion of omentum, about 
fifteen inches in diameter. 
By introducing my fingers I could feel the intestines perfectly 
distinct. The injured portion had been divided by suppuration 
and sloughing. The cow perfectly recovered. 
A CASE OF RABIES IN THE HORSE. 
Bi/ Professor Dupuy. 
A hoPlSE, fourteen years old, that had been bitten by a dog 
supposed to be rabid, was observed not to feed so well as he was 
accustomed to do; and when, in the evening, he was placed in 
the stable, he attempted to bite the horses that were nearest to 
him. 
