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vain. I then proposed to the owner to attempt to save the mo¬ 
ther by extracting the fcetus in the position in which it pre¬ 
sented itself. Four assistants were sufficient to accomplish our 
purpose, and no accident occurred. A few hours after partu¬ 
rition she got up, and in fifteen days was sent to her usual 
work. This colt, like the other, had its neck turned backward, 
and its head flattened on the flanks. It died a few moments 
after its birth. 
Case III. — Dec. 17th, 1830. M. L. Hebert, of Saint Louet, 
seeing one of his cows, four years old, straining to calve, drew 
forward thefore-legs, which were beginning to present themselves. 
Observing that the labour did not advance, he soon ceased to 
interfere. An instant afterwards, however, the efforts of the 
mother being redoubled, he tried again to assist her, but without 
effect. The fore legs were now more advanced, but the head did 
not appear, and, on introducing his hand into the vagina, he could 
not feel it. He then started for me, forbidding his servants, in 
the mean time, to do any thing to the cow. They obeyed his 
directions, and contented themselves with looking at her now 
and then. We arrived in about an hour and a half, and w'ere 
told that we should find her in the same state, for they had seen 
her not a quarter of an hour before. On entering the stable we 
found, to our surprise, a calf yet living lying behind her, which 
she had produced without assistance, and whose head and neck 
were bent upon the right side of the body. It lived only two 
days, and in three or four days afterwards the cow was apparently 
as well as ever. 
Case IV.— Feb. llth, 1834. M. Roquais, ofConde-sur-Vire, 
sent for me to look at a heifer that was unable to calve. She was 
in good condition, healthy, and had gone eight months and six 
days of her time. As in the former cases, the fore legs alone pre¬ 
sented themselves. The beast was straining violently, and sadly 
tormenting herself. I soon recognized this bending back of the 
head, and the extreme difficulties which such a position pre¬ 
sented in a heifer. I abstracted ten pounds of blood, which did 
not in the least diminish the frequency and strength of her pains. 
I again introduced my arm, and could just feel the base of the 
ear. I attempted many times, but in vain, to pass a cord be¬ 
tween the neck and the body of the foetus. I tried to turn the 
head, in which I did not think there was any malformation, but 
without success. 
My colleague and friend, M. Le Peu, having come to pay mo 
a visit on that day, I went in search of him, thinking that his 
arm, longer and stronger than mine, might give a more favour¬ 
able direction to the head. After several efforts he did change 
